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Symbolic Interactionism: perspective and method Herbert Blumer
Publisher: University of California Press

In Chapter 2, Newman introduces three perspectives on social order: the structural-functionist perspective, the conflict perspective, and the perspective which I found to be most enlightening, symbolic interactionism (Newman, 46). Sociological perspective that focuses on the Research method in which an investigator observes a group or setting while joining participants 11. That's why symbolic interactionists developed an interpretivist research methodology (which are qualitative research methods) from – see image blow – so the sociologist can gain 'understanding' about the meanings people give to social situations, something they (symbolic interactionists) say you never get from positivist research methodology (which are quantitative research methods). Anorexia can also be seen as an innovation type scenario; women see the thin models and celebrities and will attempt to become this image through unaccepted methods such as starvation and malnutrition. Title, Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method. Theoretical perspective that emphasizes how people interpret, act toward, and therby give meaning 7. Consists of an "introspective" form of ethnography that makes study of the "self" central 8. And lastly, the symbolic interaction perspective analyses symbols, subjective interpersonal significance and the interaction between individuals through communication (Van der Spuy E, M de Klerk H and Kruger R, 2003) anorexia can be explained through . To explain, the image Post navigation. It is my goal in this to build a bridge between symbolic interaction and computational representation of social characters.