symbolic interactionism

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

sociologist

innovator in the field of

sociology

psychologist

is the study of how people act toward things based on the meaning those things have for them (derived from social interaction and modified through interpretation).

Herbert Blumer, a student and interpreter of Mead, coined the term 'symbolic interactionism' and put forward an influential summary of the perspective: people act toward things based on the meaning those things have for them... and these meanings are derived from social interaction and modified through interpretation.' (wikipedia)

Herbert BlumerThinkers

Herbert Blumer