Social Psychology and Symbolism
Social psychology according to Gordon Allport is the " attempt to understand and explain how the thought, feeling, and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual imagined or implied presence of others".(Allport as cited in Hewitt 2000;3) Sociologists are concerned with social psychology in how organized social life is possible, how it works and how it evolves over time. Whereas psychologists are focused on how individuals learn and what they learn, sociologists are concerned with socialization and how groups and organizations adapt to the environment as well as how environments adapt to groups and organizations. In a sense, how we create society and how society creates us. The sociological aspect of social psychology focuses on what transpires between people rather then within people. Symbolic interaction focuses on how meaning emerges from interaction. We gain meaning by how we act and the purpose of that action. In order to act or react in regard to an action, we have to first interpret that action. So without our interpretation of an action, an action has no meaning. Social acts depend
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