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SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1SYMBOLIC INTERACTION

George Herbert Mead, Charles Horton Cooley, W. I. Thomas, Erving Goffman

Herbert Blumer BASIC PROPOSITIONS:

1. Human beings act toward things on the basis of the meanings that the things have for them.

2. The meaning of things arises out of the interaction one has with one’s fellows.

3. The meanings of things are handled in and modified through an interpretive process used by the person in dealing with the things he encounters.

Meaning is not intrinsic to the thing that has it, as being a natural part of the makeup of the thing.

Meaning is not an expression of the psychological makeup of the person, his/her psyche, mind, or attitudes.