symbolic interactionism


nounSociology.
  1. a theory that human interaction and communication is facilitated by words, gestures, and other symbols that have acquired conventionalized meanings.

Origin of symbolic interactionism

1
First recorded in 1965–70

Other words from symbolic interactionism

  • symbolic interactionist, noun

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