Symbolic Interactionism Key Terms
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Shared meaning
collective ways that we define things such that we are able to know how we should interact with others, and we know how others will interact with us.
Shared Expectations
Our presumptions concerning how people will act, think, feel or say based on their role, power, prestige, wealth, to status.
Symbols
Shared cultural representatives of reality that convey meaning (verbal/nonverbal, written/non-written; language)
Social Construction of Reality
The meaning we derive for objects arises in and out of the interactive human community; our world is socially created, it originates and evolves through everyday thoughts and social interaction