what is the sociological perspective, symbolic interaction?

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Symbolic interactionism:
A vision of society as constructed of the individual’s acts and intentions (the individualistic end of social theory).
A concern with people as self-conscious cultural actors; the ‘social self’ is constructed and reconstructed through interactive behaviour (e.g. language, gesture, etc).
A concern with group relations (rather than society as a whole) - and how people make sense of their place in society.
A concern with identity and socialisation (how people learn their culture and reproduce it):
People develop and define their group identity through interaction – a mutual working out of what things mean.
Meanings are constructed in interaction situations by a process of negotiation (Choi, Hong Kong, 2007)