Symbolic interactionism emphasizes the role of language and symbols in human communication, suggesting that individuals interpret and act based on the meanings these symbols hold for them.
This is intended for people to use meaningful language and symbols in their communication with others to make sense of their world from their unique perspectives.
The basic principles state that:
-Individuals act based on the meanings that objects have for them.
-The interaction occurs within a particular social and cultural context in which physical and social objects, as well as situations, must be defined or categorized based on individual meanings.
-The meanings arise from interactions with other individuals and with society.
-Meanings are continually created and recreated through interpretive processes during interaction with others.
Pujadas(2011)
Participant observation will be defined as a field strategy that simultaneously combines document analysis, interview, direct participation and observation, and introspection.
Flick(2004)
Symbolic interactionism.
The data must be interpreted as text.
Denzin y Lincon(2000)
It is characterized by the efforts of the methodology
qualitative for demonstrating its validity and rigor in the interpretation of your data.
The Ethnographic Interview (1979) is a self-study manual that focuses on interview techniques used to investigate ethnography and culture. This describes three important ethnographic elements:
-Explicit purpose
-Ethnographic explanations
-Project explanations
-Recording of explanations
-Explanations of the native language
-Explanations of the interview
-Explanations of questions
-Ethnographic questions
-Descriptive questions
-Structural questions
-Contrast questions
(Glaser y Strauss, 1967)
Grounded Theory,
it is a methodological proposal that seeks to develop the theory from a systematic process of obtaining and analyzing data in social research.
Blumer (1969)
Symbolic interactionism, each one of the actions carried out by the individual has a reason for being, nothing is by chance, all interaction is symbolic; In other words, any activity that is carried out has a social character.
Huebner y Hans(1935)
The students of Mead, Mind, Self and Society highlight the central concept of social interactionism in which Mind refers to the ability of the individual to use symbols to create meanings for the world around him, Self implies the ability of the individual to reflect on the way others perceive it, and society is where all these interactions take place.
(Spradley, 1980)
George Herbert Mead(1931)
American social philosopher and sociologist, who claimed that the yoes of people are social products.
Malinowski (1929)
The Sex Lives of Savages in Northwest Melanesia: An Ethnographic Account of Dating, Marriage, and Family Life Among the Natives of the Trobriand Islands
Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess y Roderick D. McKenzie (1925)
They published their study The City (1925), which contains "both key theoretical expositions and interpretive essays on the cultural patterns of urban life."
Malinowski (1922)
Western Pacific Argonauts: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagos of New Guinea Melanesia.
Malinowski (1913)
Malinowski, an Austro-Hungarian anthropologist, was considered one of the most important anthropologists of the 20th century due to his discoveries in social anthropology.
The Family Among Australian Aborigines: A Sociological Study.
