ERM 15

Question 1

Symbolic Interactionism

Answer 1

framework composed of an imagery and conceptualizations in terms of which the imagery is expressed. Also includes a set of initiating premises from which the questions of social psychology can be pursued.

Question 2

Difference

Answer 2

The theories of symbolic interactionism differ in their imagery, language describing, premises about human beings, society, the relation of society and human beings and nature of human action and interaction

Question 3

Society according to symbolic interactionism

Answer 3

A web of communication or interaction, the reciprocal influence of persons taking each other into account as they act. Society as a web of interactions creates persons but the actions of person through interaction create society. both two sides of the same coin.

Question 4

Interaction nature

Answer 4

interaction is symbolic, done in terms of meanings person develop in interaction itself. The environment of action and interaction of humans is symbolically defined.

Question 5

Communication

Answer 5

interaction done using symbols developed in their interaction, and they act through communication of these symbols.

Question 6

Social reality

Answer 6

flow of events involving multiple persons.

Question 7

Thinking

Answer 7

occurs in the form of internal conversation making use of symbols that develop out of the social process. mind and self respond to interruptions in flow of activities and select the best possible course of action.

Question 8

Human social behaviour

Answer 8

it is indeterminate as a matter of principle as neither the course not the outcomes of social interaction are completely predictable from factors and conditions that precede the interaction.

Question 9

Blumer’s three premises

Answer 9

1) human beings act towards things. 2) meanings arise in process of interactions between people. Meanings of things are social products. 3) the use of meanings occurs through a process of interpretation in which actors communicate with themselves, selecting, checking, regrouping, transforming and using meanings to form and guide their actions and interactions in situations in which they find themselves.

Question 10

Stryker’s three premises

Answer 10

1) an adequate account, whether explanation or understanding of human behaviour must incorporate the point of view of actors engaged in this behaviour. 2) social interaction is fundamental and it results inn emergence of self and social structure. 3) persons reflexivity (their responses to themselves) link larger social processes to the interaction in which they engage.

Question 11

Blumer criticism

Answer 11

don’t adequately describe the tenet of the symbolic interactionist frame as they fail to explicitly articulate ideas implicit in them.

Question 12

Considerations

Answer 12

We need to understand objets of analysis by considering qualities intrinsic to them and also understanding the interactional contexts in which they are embedded.

Question 13

Symbolization

Answer 13

events, conditions, artificers, individuals, etc the on meanings and become objects for persons that elicit feelings and actions.