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• • Is a theory on society that focuses on the individual’s interactions with objects and other people. 


  SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
• This concept emphasizes the capacity of humans to project and plan their actions based on certain goals formed for the betterment of their conditions. 


  Human Agency
• • Was an American Sociologist who coined the term symbolic interactionism.


  herbert blumer
• • In this context is the ability to perceive the object of conversation through the eyes of the other. 


  Role Play
• • Actions are determined by the meanings people associate with things. In a sense then, symbolic interactionism sees reality as an association of meanings. As meaning change so does society. 


  interaction-based meaning
• developed a theory of the social self, which interprets the self as emerging from social interactions


  George Herbert mead
• It allows communication through which attitudes, opinions, emotions and ideas are conveyed between individuals.


  Language
• • It allows an individual to act in another role or capacity, or what is commonly known as role play.


  Play
• It allows an individual to act within the confines imposed by the rules of the activity


  Game
• • Was an American sociologist whose main contribution in the field was the study of the primary groups. 


  charles horton cooley
• • The first group where a person belongs, and where an individual develops his or her ideas, beliefs values and self.  


  primary groups
• • The most famous theory of Cooley.
  • Which the self is understood as that which is formed from interactions, such as those done with the primary group. 


  looking glass self
• • Was an American sociologist and ethnomethodologist.


  Harold Garfinkel
• is sometimes related to theory of common sense,


  Ethnomethodology
• • Lack of testability due to its focus on small group interactions.


  criticism and limitation