The Theories of Mead, Blumer and Blau
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10
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This is a 10 page paper discussing the integration of the theories of Mead, Blumer and Blau. The Chicago School was known for its development in the areas of philosophy and the social sciences and was the base for the popular sociological and cognitive psychological theories of contextuality, symbolic interaction and social structure. Mead developed his theory from the biological, based on Darwin and evolved his theory to include cognitive psychological elements and conceived of the idea of symbolic interaction and the social self. Blumer accepted the scientific aspects of the social elements but did not focus his efforts to the contextual elements which were often at the base of the Chicago School. Blau, on the other hand, continued on with the image of the social self but related that element back again to the contextual process which occurs within a society that is based on the nominal and gradation differentiations and these differentiations constrain an individual’s choices, preferences and perceptions.
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