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Name: Portugal, Shielyza J. Date: September 19,

2020

Student No. : 18-13239 Course: BEED-GEN ED

1. Choose at least 5 principles of symbolic interaction and explain why

Answer:

Meanings and symbols :

It suggests that people act and behave towards the other people and things based upon the
meaning that they have given to them. The principle of meaning is central to the theory of
symbolic interactionism.

Example: when we think of a Buddhist Monk the image comes to our mind. We will have
some assumptions about these people and our behaviour towards them will be based on these
assumptions that we have made.

Social interaction:
The second principle is social interaction which makes the symbols and interactions
comprehensible to the mind. And which helps in formulating assumptions. According to the
theory, the naming assigned through the language, the naming creates meanings to
everything because everything has its own name. To name a thing, the knowledge about the
thing is important and thus the name indicates some feature or any other kind of knowledge
about the things. This knowledge is converted into names through languages.

Example: when we say to have dinner outside, the people who listens makes sense of it
based on their perspectives and understanding. When I say dinner outside someone will
understand it as just go out and get something to eat and someone else may think that having
dinner outside as a date.

Human beings unlike lower animals, are endowed with a capacity for  Thought :
The third core principle of symbolic interactionism is thought. The thought implies the
interpretations that we have assigned to the symbols. The basis of thought is language. It is a
process of mentally conversing about the meanings, names and symbols. The thought
includes the imaginations which have the power to provide an idea even about an unknown
thing based on known knowledge.
 Example: The best example of thought is ‘to think’

Symbolization: highlights the processes through which events and conditions, artefacts,

people, and other environmental features that take on particular meanings, becoming
nearly only objects of orientation. Human behaviour is partly contingent on what the
object of orientation symbolizes or means.
The capacity for thought is shaped by social interaction: focuses on attention on the
procession and non-habituated side of social life, focusing not only on organization and
texture of social life, but also associated meaning and feelings. The principle of
emergence points us not only to the possibility of new forms of social life and system
meaning but also to transformations in existing forms of social organization.

2. Explain structural functional, interactionist theorist and symbolic extractionism.

Structural functionalism, or simply functionalism, is "a framework for building theory that

sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability".
This approach looks at society through a macro-level orientation, which is a broad focus on
the social structures that shape society as a whole, and believes that society has evolved like
organisms. This approach looks at both social structure and social functions. Functionalism
addresses society as a whole in terms of the function of its constituent elements;
namely norms, customs, traditions, and institutions.
A common analogy, popularized by Herbert Spencer, presents these parts of society as "organs"
that work toward the proper functioning of the "body" as a whole. In the most basic terms, it
simply emphasizes "the effort to impute, as rigorously as possible, to each feature, custom, or
practice, its effect on the functioning of a supposedly stable, cohesive system". For Talcott
Parsons, "structural-functionalism" came to describe a particular stage in the methodological
development of social science, rather than a specific school of thought.

 Interactionism is a theoretical perspective that derives social processes (such as conflict,

cooperation, identity formation) from human interaction.[1] It is the study of how individuals
shape society and is shaped by society through meaning that arises in interactions. Interactionism
theory has grown in the latter half of the twentieth century and has become one of the dominant
sociological perspectives in the world today. George Herbert Mead, as an advocate
of pragmatism and the subjectivity of social reality, is considered a leader in the development of
interactionism. Herbert Blumer expanded on Mead's work and coined the term "symbolic
interactionism".

Symbolic interactionism is a sociological theory that develops from practical considerations

and alludes to people's particular utilization of dialect to make images and normal implications,
for deduction and correspondence with others. In other words, it is a frame of reference to better
understand how individuals interact with one another to create symbolic worlds, and in return,
how these worlds shape individual behaviours. It is a framework that helps understand how
society is preserved and created through repeated interactions between individuals. The
interpretation process that occurs between interactions helps create and recreate meaning. It is
the shared understanding and interpretations of meaning that affect the interaction between
individuals. Individuals act on the premise of a shared understanding of meaning within their
social context. Thus, interaction and behaviour is framed through the shared meaning that objects
and concepts have attached to them. From this view, people live in both natural and symbolic
environments.
Symbolic interactionism comes from a sociological perspective which developed around the
middle of the twentieth century and that continues to be influential in some areas of the
discipline. It is particularly important in microsociology and social psychology. It is derived
from the American philosophy of pragmatism and particularly from the work of George Herbert
Mead, as a pragmatic method to interpret social interactions.
R. Collins views symbolic interactionism as studying the way the social world is created through
interaction between individuals and their environment.

Assignment; what are the 4 pillars of education?

The four pillars of education

• Education throughout life is based on four pillars: learning to know, learning to do, learning to
live together and learning to be.
• Learning to know, by combining sufficiently broad general knowledge with the opportunity to
work in depth on a small number of subjects. This also means learning to learn, so as to benefit
from the opportunities education provides throughout life.

• Learning to do, in order to acquire not only an occupational skill but also, more broadly, the
competence to deal with many situations and work in teams. It also means learning to do in the
context of young peoples' various social and work experiences which may be informal, as a
result of the local or national context, or formal, involving courses, alternating study and work.

• Learning to live together, by developing an understanding of other people and an appreciation

of interdependence - carrying out joint projects and learning to manage conflicts -in a spirit of
respect for the values of pluralism, mutual understanding and peace.

• Learning to be, so as better to develop one's personality and be able to act with ever greater
autonomy, judgement and personal responsibility. In that connection, education must not
disregard any aspect of a person's potential: memory, reasoning, aesthetic sense, physical
capacities and communication skills.