1. Aspects of Theoretical Perspectives
... of great importance because human beings live in a symbolic universe where all social interactions involve the exchange of symbols. Symbolic interactionism is largely based on the works of George Herbert Mead, Herbert Blumer, Charles Horton Cooley and Erving Goffman (Ferris and Stein, 2010). Their theories on human interaction and behaviour, when applied today, is what makes this perspective a very ... important tool in explaining social phenomena. George Herbert Mead, focused on human interaction within one-to-one situations and small groups, observing the minutest forms of communicati...
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