Blumer, Herbert /
Herbert Blumer (1900-1987) was a central figure in what has come to be labelled the Chicago School of Sociology. He significantly shaped its later phase of development in theoretical and methodological terms, and, more generally, had an important impact on American sociology. He is probably best kno...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd.,
2020.
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| Series: | Mixed methods pioneers of social research.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Herbert Blumer (1900-1987) was a central figure in what has come to be labelled the Chicago School of Sociology. He significantly shaped its later phase of development in theoretical and methodological terms, and, more generally, had an important impact on American sociology. He is probably best known for his invention of the term symbolic interactionism and his advocacy of this sociological perspective, which is based on the ideas of the pragmatist philosophers George Herbert Mead and John Dewey, and the sociologists Charles H. Cooley and William I. Thomas. However, he was also an influential critic of the growing dominance of statistical method in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, championing the role of the kind of "case study" that had been a major element of earlier ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529745399 152974539X 9781526421036 1526421038 |