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Interactionist Theory

1. INTERACTIONIST THEORY Exploring the Dynamics of Symbolic Interactions Mahima Mahat Rajeshwari Prajapati Shiwani Mahat MSW 1 st Semester

2. Introduction Explanation and Example Principle 02 04 01 Purpose Purpose of Interactionism Theory Symbolic Interactionism 03 Dramaturgical Theory Founder Explanation References 05 Table of contents Interaction Interactionism Interactionist Theory Interactionism Perspective

3. Introduction 01

4. INTERACTION A face-to-face process consisting of actions, reactions, and mutual adaptation between two or more individuals. Also includes animal interaction such as mating. Includes all language (including body language) and mannerisms.

5. Process where the ability to think is both developed and expressed. In most interaction, actors must take others into consideration and decide if and how to fit their activities to others.

6. Interactionism Is a theoretical perspective that derives social processes (such as conflict, cooperation, identity formation) from human interaction. It is the study of how individuals act within society.

7. Interactionist Theories Interactionist Theory has its origin in the social psychology of early twentieth century sociologist George Herbert Mead and Charles Horton Cooley. Mead and Cooley examined the ways in which the individual in related to society through ongoing social interactions.

8. Purpose 02

9. Interactionist Theories attempt to take the “commonplace strange” by turning on their heads everyday taken-for-granted behaviors and interactions between students and students and between teachers and students. It is exactly what most people do not question that is most problematic to the interactionist.

10. For example, the processes by which students are labelled “gifted” or “learning disabled” are, from an interactionist point of view, important to analyze because such processes carry with them many implicit assumptions about learning and children.

11. Symbolic Interactionism 03

12. He was an American sociologist whose main scholarly interests were in symbolic interactionism and methods of social research. He was an aid interpreter and proponent of George Herbert Mead's social psychology that he labeled as 'symbolic interactionism'. Herbert George Blumer (March 7, 1900 - April 13, 1987)

13. Blumer’s Three Basic Premise Herbert Blumer (1969) set out three basic premises of the perspective: “Humans act toward things on the basis of the meaning they ascribe to those things”. “ The meaning of such things is derived from or arises out of the social interaction that one has with others and the society.” (same thing could have different meaning to different people.) “ These meaning are handled in, and modified through, an interpretation process used by the person in dealing with the things he/she encounters”. (The meaning we give to something is not permanent)

14. - Individual is related to society through on going social interactions. - Views the self as socially constructed in relation to social forces and structures and the product of on going negotiations of meanings. - Thus the social self is and active product of human agency rather than a deterministic product of social structure.

15. Symbolic Interactionism Which requires mental processes

16. Principles of Symbolic Interactionism Human beings unlike lower animals are endowed with a capacity for thought. The capacity for thought is shaped by social interaction. In social interaction, people learn the meanings and symbols that allow them to exercise their distinctively human capacity for thought. Meanings and symbols allow people to carry on distinctive human action and interaction. People are able to modify or alter meanings and symbols that they use in action and interaction on the basis of their interpretation of the situation.

17. Dramaturgical Theory 04

18. Ervin Goffman( 1922-1982) Canadian born American Sociologist. Main theorist of the Dramaturgical Theory. Schooled in Symbolic Interaction Theory. Extended Mead's basic insights by viewing everyday human behavior as distinctly dramatic, or theatrical. “Life itself is a dramatically enacted thing. ”

19. Dramaturgical Theory The theatrical representation of life. Consists of the Front stage (Pretend) and the Back stage (Real self) Uses Impression management as tool.

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