... concentrate on relatively small-scale levels of social interaction (between individuals, small social groups and so forth) and, for this reason, they are sometimes referred-to as a "micro level of sociological analysis" (However, as we will find later, there are exceptions). The assumptions here are: 1) that people and groups use symbols and place meanings on these symbols when communicating, 2) ... Perhaps the most important and enduring of interactionist theories has been that of Symbolic Interaction. While the symbolic interaction perspective is sometimes associated with Mead, it was H...

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