Editing Symbolic interactionism (section)

=== Herbert Blumer ===
[[Herbert Blumer]], a student and interpreter of Mead, coined the term and put forward an influential summary: people act a certain way towards things based on the meaning those things already have, and these meanings are derived from social interaction and modified through interpretation.<ref name="SSSI">{{cite web|url=http://symbolicinteraction.org/|title=Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction|last1=Williams|first1=Patrick|last2=vom Lehn|first2=Dirk|access-date=2021-10-01|archive-date=2023-05-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230506214716/https://www.symbolicinteraction.org/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Blumer was a [[social constructionist]], and was influenced by [[John Dewey]]; as such, this theory is very [[Phenomenology (philosophy)|phenomenologically]]-based. Given that Blumer was the first to use symbolic interaction as a term, he is known as the founder of symbolic interaction.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Aksan|first1=Nilgun|last2=Kısac|first2=Buket|last3=Aydın|first3=Mufit|last4=Demirbuken|first4=Sumeyra|date=2009-01-01|title=Symbolic interaction theory|journal=Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences|series=World Conference on Educational Sciences: New Trends and Issues in Educational Sciences|volume=1|issue=1|pages=902–904|doi=10.1016/j.sbspro.2009.01.160|doi-access=free}}</ref> He believed that the "Most human and humanizing activity that people engage in is talking to each other."<ref name=":2" /> According to Blumer, human groups are created by people and it is only actions between them that define a society.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book|last=Blumer|first=Herbert|title=Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method|publisher=[[Prentice-Hall]]|year=1969|isbn=978-0138799243|location=Englewood Cliffs, N.J.|oclc=18071}}</ref> He argued that with interaction and through interaction individuals are able to "produce common symbols by approving, arranging, and redefining them."<ref name=":4" /> Having said that, interaction is shaped by a mutual exchange of interpretation, the ground of socialization.<ref name=":0" />