Editing Symbolic interactionism (section)

=== Principles ===
Keeping Blumer's earlier work in mind [[David A. Snow]], professor of sociology at the [[University of California, Irvine]], suggests four broader and even more basic orienting principles: [[human agency]], interactive determination, symbolization, and [[emergence]]. Snow uses these four principles as the thematic bases for identifying and discussing contributions to the study of social movements.

# '''Human agency''': emphasizes the active, willful, goal-seeking character of human actors. The emphasis on agency focuses attention on those actions, events, and moments in social life in which agentic action is especially palpable.
# '''Interactive determination''': specifies that understanding of focal objects of analysis, whether they are self-concepts, identities, roles, practices, or even social movements. Basically this means, neither individual, society, self, or others exist only in relation to each other and therefore can be fully understood only in terms of their interaction.
# '''Symbolization''''':'' highlights the processes through which events and conditions, artifacts, people, and other environmental features that take on particular meanings, becoming nearly only objects of orientation. Human behavior is partly contingent on what the object of orientation symbolizes or means.
# '''Emergence''': focuses on attention on the processual and non-habituated side of social life, focusing not only on organization and texture of social life, but also associated meaning and feelings. The principle of emergence points us not only to the possibility of new forms of social life and system meaning but also to transformations in existing forms of social organization.<ref name=":3" />