Review

 Explain the cycle of conflict

theory on your own words
 SYMBOLIC
INTERACTIONISM
 it is a theory that centered to human
communication both verbal and non-
verbal and to images, symbols
significance through language and the
manner of individual understanding..
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD
He is the one who
argued that “ people’s
selves are social products
but that these selves are
also purposive and
creative.
 as a framework for
building theories that see
society as a product of
everyday human
interaction.
SYMBOLIC
INTERACTIONISM
 The central theme of symbolic
interactionism is that human life is lived
in the symbolic domain. Symbols are
culturally derived social objects having
shared meanings that are created and
maintained in social interaction. Through
language and communication, symbols
provide the means by which reality is
constructed. 
It looks at people as SOCIAL ACTORS
 SYMBOLIC
INTERACTION
 Society is played out through
daily interactions between
people
 People interact through shared
symbols & language
 The meaning of our symbols &
reality is subject to change
 Every person has their own ideas, feelings, &
thoughts on symbols in society
The label symbolic interactionism was
coined by Herbert Blumer (1969), one of
Mead's students. Blumer, who did much to
shape this perspective, specified its three
basic premises:
3 basic assumptions in Symbolic
Interactionism
1. Human actions depend on the
meaning of the object
2. We give meanings to things based
on social interactions & experiences
3. The meaning of symbols is not
permanent & can change over time
LOOKING GLASS
THEORY
 How does your identity
form and change over
time?
 The term "the looking glass self" was
created by American
sociologist Charles Horton
Cooley in 1902,  and introduced into
his own work "Human Nature and the
Social Order". It is described as our
reflection of how we think we appear
to others. To further explain would be
how oneself imagines how others
view him/her.
WILLIAM ISSAC THOMAS (1966)

 He emphasized the
importance of definitions
and meanings in social
behavior and its
consequences.

 He suggested that humans

respond to their definition of
a situation rather than to
the objective situation itself.