Symbolic InteractionismBlumer's three premises and the concepts that build society out of encounters.SociologySociety as an ongoing accomplishment of small encounters.Blumer's premisesPeople act toward things by their meaning.Meaning arises out of social interaction.Meaning is handled and revised interpretively.Structure is a pattern of repeated interaction.Method follows: observe the setting closely.Working conceptsLooking-glass self: seeing self through others.Mead: the I, the me, and the generalised other.Goffman: front stage and back stage.Impression management and face-work.Definition of the situation; Thomas theorem.Career: the sequence of a labelled identity.Criticised for thin treatment of power and structure: the encounter iswatched closely, the field it sits in less so.Symbolic Interactionismlearnposters.com
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11 entries in 2 groups.

Society as an ongoing accomplishment of small encounters.

Criticised for thin treatment of power and structure: the encounter is watched closely, the field it sits in less so.

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What’s on the Symbolic Interactionism poster?
11 entries in 2 groups. Society as an ongoing accomplishment of small encounters. Blumer's premises: People act toward things by their meaning., Meaning arises out of…; Working concepts: Looking-glass self: seeing self through others., Mead: the I, the m…. Criticised for thin treatment of power and structure: the encounter is watched closely, the field it sits in less so.
Who is the Symbolic Interactionism poster for?
Symbolic Interactionism belongs to the Sociology section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning theory can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Symbolic Interactionism poster?
When the question is how a category is produced in interaction, not where it came from. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Symbolic Interactionism belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Symbolic Interactionism?
Bourdieu: Forms of Capital, Conflict Theory and The Frankfurt School sit alongside Symbolic Interactionism in the Sociology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Bourdieu: Forms of CapitalConflict TheoryThe Frankfurt School
Is the Symbolic Interactionism poster free to download and print?
Yes. Symbolic Interactionism downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Sociology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Symbolic Interactionism poster print at?
Symbolic Interactionism is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Symbolic Interactionism loses nothing.Printing guide

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