Identity formation

Symbolic interactionism is a micro-sociological paradigm that understands social reality as the outcome of symbolically mediated processes of interaction. Society does not primarily emerge from supra-individual structures or functional systems, but from the meaning-making activities of actors in everyday life. At the center lies the guiding question: How does social reality emerge through interaction? The

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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

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