INTERACTIONIST

THEORIES
Interaction

Is a face to face process consisting of actions,

reactions , and mutual adaption between two or
more individuals. It also includes animal
interaction such as mating.
The interaction includes all language (including
body language and mannerisms.
Interactionism

It is a study of how individual act within the

society.
 Interactionist Theory

It claims that if our language ability

developed out of desire to communicate
then language is dependent upon whom we
want to communicate.
Interactionist theory

Interactionist theory has its origin in the social

psychology of early twentieth-century sociologist
George Herbert Mead and Charles Horton Cooley.
Mead and Cooley examined the ways in which the
individual is related to society through ongoing
social interactions.
Purpose of Interactionist Theory

It attempts to take the "commonplace strange

"by turning on their heads everyday taken-for-
granted behaviors and interactions between
students and teachers. It is exactly what most
people do not question that is most problematic
to the interactionist.
 Symbolic Interactionism

An individual is related to society through on

going social interactions.
Principles of Symbolic Interactionism

Humans beings unlike lower animals are endowed

with a capacity for thought.

The capacity of thought is shaped by social

interaction

In social interaction, people learn the meanings and

the symbols that allow them to exercise their
distinctively human capacity for thought.
Principles of Symbolic Interactionism

Meanings and symbols allow people to carry on

distinctively human interactions

People are able to modify or alter meanings and

symbols that they use in action and interaction on
the basis of their interpretation of the situation.
Non Symbolic Interactionism

The first, non symbolic interaction - Mead's

conversation of gestures. The second non
symbolic interaction does not require mental
processes. (Ritzel, 2000)
Mead's approach to symbolic
interaction rested in 3 basic premises

The first is that people act toward the things they

encounter on the basis of what those things mean to them.
Second, we learn what things are by observing how other
people respond to them, that is through social interaction.
Third, as a result of ongoing interaction, the sounds (or
words), gestures, facial expressions, and body postures we
use in dealing with others acquire symbolic meanings that
are shared by people who belong to the same culture.

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