Explain the importance of ‘symbolic interaction’
January 23, 2009 heywayne 16 other publications
According to Manis and Meltzer (1972) the concept of ‘symbolic interactionism’ is concerned with “the ‘inner’, or phenomenological aspects of human behaviour”. What they meant was that human behaviour was somehow defined, not from within the person, but from their social interaction. Symbolic Interaction involves three basic premises. First, individuals respond to the environment on the basis of the meanings that objects, or symbols, of the environment have for them as individuals. Second, such meanings are a product of social interaction; and third, these social / cultural meanings are modified through individual interpretation within the sphere of this shared interaction.
According to Manis and Meltzer (1972) the concept of ‘symbolic interactionism’ is concerned with “the ‘inner’, or phenomenological aspects of human behaviour”. What they mean...
