Symbolic Interactionism

 Symbolic interactivity theory symbolic interactionism (also known as symbolic interactionism) is a sociological and social psychological theory that proposes to study the life of human groups from the daily natural environment in which people interact with each other. It was founded by American sociologist G. H. Mead and formally proposed by his student Blumer in 1937. A "sign" is something that has symbolic meaning to a certain extent. 

 According to the theory of symbolic interaction, the influence of things on individual social behavior usually lies not in the secular content and function contained in the things themselves, but in the symbolic meaning of things themselves relative to individuals, and the symbolic meaning of things comes from the interaction between individuals and others (such interaction includes language, culture, system, etc.). He will always use and modify the meaning of things to him through his own interpretation. Symbolic interaction theory opposes the social structure determinism of positivist sociology that ignores the subjective initiative of actors, and puts forward the theoretical proposition that the cognition, action and interaction of actors constitute society. Meade, the founder of his thought, tried to explore the relationship between individual thought and action, and develop a social psychology that explains individual consciousness with social action. 

 Mead absorbed the empirical relevance of truth in pragmatic philosophy and the objective consciousness research method of behaviorism psychology, and proposed a broad behaviorism method to study individual experience according to individual actions, especially those that can be observed by others, and developed a "social behaviorism" method to understand individual behavior and experience in the overall social context. After Mead, Blumer system proposed a microsociological theory based on "symbolic interaction", the core of which is still the relationship between meaning, self and other situational knowledge and social organization.

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