Using a step-by-step approach, this text orgainizes the basic concepts of symbolic interactionism in such a way that students understand them and should be able to apply them to their own lives. It emphasizes the active side of human beings, humans as definers and users of the environment, humans as problem solvers and in control of their own actions, and it shows how society makes us, and how we, in turn, shape society.
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Using a step-by-step approach, this text orgainizes the basic concepts of symbolic interactionism in such a way that students understand them and should be able to apply them to their own lives. It emphasizes the active side of human beings, humans as definers and users of the environment, humans as problem solvers and in control of their own actions, and it shows how society makes us, and how we, in turn, shape society.
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