Historical Overview of Symbolic Interaction: Cooley and Religion Example Cover Image

Sembolik Etkileşimciliğin Tarihine Bir Bakış: Cooley Ve Din Örneği
Historical Overview of Symbolic Interaction: Cooley and Religion Example

Author(s): Ahmet Özalp
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social psychology and group interaction, Social Theory
Published by: Sage Yayınları
Keywords: Cooley; Symbolic Interaction; Religion; Individual; Sociology;

Summary/Abstract: Symbolic interactionism is known as a sociological theory that is closely related to social psychology in content and scope within the American sociology tradition. Symbolic interactivity, which takes its foundations from Weber and Mead's thoughts, is focused on examining the subjective and cultural aspects of social life, not the objective aspects of macro-structures of social and social systems. The main objective of this concentration and studies is the subjective meanings that arise as a result of the interactions of individuals' movements with other individuals. Given this perspective, where symbolic interactivity centers on the subjective meanings of the individual's movements in social life, the prospect of researching the self-theory of Cooley based on the movements of the individual and the individual will emerge. After our study gave a brief historical assessment of the symbolic interaction approach, it will be limited by the analysis of Cooley's thoughts. The aim of our research is to examine the direct interaction between the individual and the society of Cooley, who considers the individual and the society as two independent phenomena, and which considers the distinction between these two phenomena, and to consider the inability of separating the individual from the society because of the main essence underlying the social mobility of the individual's movements. However, another aim of the research is to examine the contribution of Charles Horton Cooley to the history of symbolic interactionism in the light of these researches. In this way, both the micro-depths of sociology can be considered and sociology contributions of a social psychology that has not been studied in domestic literature like Cooley can be analyzed.

  • Issue Year: 9/2017
  • Issue No: 36
  • Page Range: 608-614
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Turkish