Symbolic Interactionism: An Introduction, an Interpretation, an Integration

by Joel M. Charon

Book Overview

Using a unique step-by-step, integrated approach, this book organizes the basic concepts of symbolic interactionism in such a way that readers understand them clearly and are able to apply them to their own lives. It emphasizes the active side of human beings-humans as definers and users of the environment, humans as problem solvers and in control of their own actions-and it shows students how society makes us, and how we in turn shape society. Each...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0138701059
• ISBN13: 9780138701055
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 193 Pages