Herbert Blumer
American sociologist (1900–1987) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Herbert George Blumer (March 7, 1900 – April 13, 1987) was an American sociologist whose main scholarly interests were symbolic interactionism and methods of social research.[1] Believing that individuals create social reality through collective and individual action,[2] he was an avid interpreter and proponent of George Herbert Mead's social psychology, which he labeled symbolic interactionism.[3] Blumer elaborated and developed this line of thought in a series of articles, many of which were brought together in the book Symbolic Interactionism.[4] An ongoing theme throughout his work, he argued that the creation of social reality is a continuous process.[2] Blumer was also a vociferous critic of positivistic methodological ideas in sociology.[3][5][6]
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Born | (1900-03-07)March 7, 1900 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
Died | April 13, 1987(1987-04-13) (aged 87) Danville, California, U.S. |
Spouses | Marguerite Barnett (m. 1922)Marcia Jackson (m. 1943) |
Children | 3 |
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Education | University of Missouri (AB, MA) University of Chicago (PhD) |
Influences | George Herbert Mead, W. I. Thomas, Charles H. Cooley, Robert Park, Georg Simmel, John Dewey, Charles Ellwood |
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School or tradition | Chicago School of Sociology |
Institutions | American Sociological Association University of Missouri University of Chicago University of California at Berkeley |
Main interests | Sociology, symbolic interactionism, sociological research methods |
Influenced | Erving Goffman, Anselm Strauss, Howard S. Becker, Tamotsu Shibutani |