Symbolic Interactionism
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Symbolic interactionism, developed by George Herbert Mead and named by Herbert Blumer, studies how people build social reality through everyday interaction and shared meanings attached to symbols.
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A ring means marriage only because a society agrees it does; the metal carries none of the meaning.
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Its native scale is interaction; comparing whole structures requires supplementing it, the macro frameworks' job.
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