Interactionism

Interactionism

1. INTERACTIONISM George Herbert Maede Charles Horton Cooley By: Luis Gonzalez Noel Quetzal Roger Briceno

2. Interaction theory Interactionist theories attempt to make the “commonplace strange” by turning on their heads everyday taken-for-granted behaviors and interactions between students and students and between students and teachers.

3. Interaction theory Is the relation of school and society. Tends to focus on the language and symbols that help us give meaning to the experiences in our lives. As we interact with the world we change the way we behave.

4. Interaction theory Interaction mainly on face-to-face experiences but now we can include; (a) Texting and (b) Messeging people behave based on what they believe and not just on what is objectively true.

5. Constructing Reality Basis of the Theory Humans Act toward people or things based on how we assign meaning to those people or things. We assign meaning based on social interactions we have with other people. Meaning is not inherent in these words, but it is instead treated socially through language. eg . Teaches assign labels to students and things(The class clown, the studious, etc.) These symbols (or naming) is fundamental to what it means to be human.( Genesis 2:20 The man gave names to all…) Within language are our assumptions and our understanding of reality.

6. Interaction theory The interactionists perspective emphasizes on how people behave based on what is believed about him/her. For Example why would young people smoke cigarettes even when all objective medical evidence points to the dangers of doing so? One must know whether they are in a movie theater, bank, library, or market to know, in a social sense, just whom they are interacting with and for what purpose. both race and gender are social constructs that function based on  what we believe to be true  about people, given what they look like.

7. Constructing Reality

8. Taking the other Minding The process of having an inner dialogue where we think about the symbols we are using. Different from animals who act instinctively instead of symbolically. Because of this we can imagine what it is like to be another person, we can experience empathy. Do you believe we can truly imagine what it is like to be another person ? This also allows us to imagine how we look to other people, who do other people think we are?

9. The looking glass self Charles Cooley

10. Education Family Religion In the classroom the student-student and the teacher-student interaction give students a meaning of self. Family members influence what we believe of ourselves, oftentimes we are labelled at the home. provides moral guidance and an outlet for worship. Provides a spiritual meaning to life.

11. tenets of the theory Creating reality. Interaction is a social drama that is a constant negotiation Never finished, and meaning never fixed. We could change it at anytime. Generalized other How we generally make sense of people Are people good/bad? Etc. What are other generalizations can we make about people?

12. tenets CONT.. Naming Names really matter, what we call people truly affects who they are. Does what people call you affect who you are? Self-fulfilling prophecy We may tend to act in ways that come out of how we understand ourselves symbolically.

13. Reference The Three Main Sociological Perspectives From Mooney, Knox, and Schacht, 2007. Understanding Social Problems, 5th edition Anderson, M.L. and Taylor, H.F. (2009). Sociology: The Essentials. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth . Anderson, M.L. and Taylor, H.F. (2009). Sociology: The Essentials. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth.