Symbolic interactionism was developed by George Mead and later refined by Herbert Blumer. This communication theory advocates that the way societies see objects or individuals, explains how they will act regarding them; one develops significance through interaction in the social dominion; and that individuals develop upon those meanings in their own intellectual realm (Griffin, Ledbetter, & Sparks, 2015). Humans think through their social interactions in their mind, to determine their meaning or value. Societies’ non-verbal and verbal interaction with people gives them their significance. So negative social interaction will cause the individual to see himself or herself as worthless and so they will act based upon that thought, while an individual that sees themselves as popular to society will act with pride based upon that feeling that they get from society.
Society can demoralize whole races and people groups by generalizing them, which will cause those people or races to live out those opinions or views because of their perceptions gained from humanity around them. People understand themselves based on what societies say about them and have a propensity to lose self worth because of how society views them as not being a helpful part of the whole. Society will cast those it does not like into a mental state of disorder …show more content…
Individuals will each contribute and effect how everyone else in the relational system shapes their worldview. Communication will always be taking place, non-verbal queues will be taken by the everyone and interpreted just as much as verbal communication. The social interactions of each individual with every other person will be different and shape how they interact with
Society can demoralize whole races and people groups by generalizing them, which will cause those people or races to live out those opinions or views because of their perceptions gained from humanity around them. People understand themselves based on what societies say about them and have a propensity to lose self worth because of how society views them as not being a helpful part of the whole. Society will cast those it does not like into a mental state of disorder …show more content…
Individuals will each contribute and effect how everyone else in the relational system shapes their worldview. Communication will always be taking place, non-verbal queues will be taken by the everyone and interpreted just as much as verbal communication. The social interactions of each individual with every other person will be different and shape how they interact with