Sociology & Criminology for a Changing World
Herbert Mead’s work Mind, Self, and Society is considered a key text of symbolic interactionism and remains one of the most influential contributions to socialization theory. Published posthumously in 1934, the book is not a classic monograph but a compilation of lecture notes that systematically present Mead’s core ideas. Academic Context Mead taught at the
With his work Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method (1969), Herbert Blumer laid the theoretical and methodological foundation of symbolic interactionism. As a student of George Herbert Mead, he not only coined the term for this school of thought but also shaped one of the most influential microsociological theories of the 20th century. Blumer’s approach places
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