Herbert blumer symbolic interactionism theory
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Blumer, Herbert 1900-1987
PERSONAL: Born 1900 in St. Louis, MO; died March 7, 1987; son of a cabinet maker and a homemaker. Education: Attended University of Missouri, 1918-1922; University of Chicago, Ph.D., 1928.
CAREER: Sociologist, educator, and writer. University of Missouri, teacher, 1922-25; University of Chicago, professor of sociology, 1928-52; University of California—Berkeley, chair of sociology department, 1952-72. Active in professional football; worked as an arbitrator in labor negotiations.
MEMBER: Society for the Study of Social Problems (president, 1955), American Sociological Association (president, 1956).
WRITINGS:
Movies and Conduct, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1933, reprinted, Arno Press (New York, NY), 1970.
(With Philip M Hauser) Movies, Delinquency, and Crime, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1933, reprinted, Arno Press (New York, NY), 1970.
Critiques of Research in the Social Sciences: An Appraisal of Thomas and Znaniecki's The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, Social Science Research Council (New York, NY), 1939, reprinted, Transaction Bo
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Blumer, Herbert
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Herbert George Blumer earned his doctorate in 1928 at the University of Chicago and went on to teach there until 1951. He later became the founding chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1983 the American Sociological Association honored him with its Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, acknowledging the importance of his codification of the fundamental theoretical and methodological tenets of the sociological perspective that he called symbolic interactionism.
While it is not possible to capture the great range and significance of his contributions to the study of human group life in a single quotation, this oft-cited passage from his most influential and widely read work, Symbolic Interaction: Perspective and Method, sets out the cardinal premises of symbolic interactionism and the central message of his scholarship:
The first premise is that human beings act toward things on the basis of the meanings that the things have for them…. The second premise is that the meaning of such thing
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Herbert Blumer
American sociologist (1900–1987)
Herbert Blumer
Born (1900-03-07)March 7, 1900 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died April 13, 1987(1987-04-13) (aged 87) Danville, California, U.S.
Spouses Marguerite Barnett
(m. 1922)Marcia Jackson
(m. 1943)Children 3 Education University of Missouri (AB, MA)
University of Chicago (PhD)Influences George Herbert Mead, W. I. Thomas, Charles H. Cooley, Robert Park, Georg Simmel, John Dewey, Charles Ellwood School or tradition Chicago School of Sociology Institutions American Sociological Association
University of Missouri
University of Chicago
University of California at BerkeleyMain interests Sociology, symbolic interactionism, sociological research methods Influenced Erving Goffman, Anselm Strauss, Howard S. Becker, Tamotsu Shibutani Herbert George Blumer (March 7, 1900 – April 13, 1987) was an American sociologist whose main scholarly interests were symbolic interactionism and methods of social
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