Strangely enough one of my close friends shares a birthday with the famous symbolic interactionism theorists because Herbert George Blumer who is a white male was born on March 7th, 1900 in Missouri. He grew up on a farm with his mother being a homemaker and his father making cabinets. However, this small town feeling did not stop him wanting to be surrounded in the world of business. It is when he attended college was where Herbert got his first taste of the sociological and psychological fields by meeting people in those very own fields. No one is worth mentioning until he runs into his mentor George Herbert Mead at the University of Chicago after being relocated there after a few years of teaching. Two interesting pieces of information I
