...enables us to note several matters of distinct importance. It calls attention, first, to the fact that the essence of society lies in an ongoing process...action— not in a posited structure of relations. Without action, any structure of relations between people is meaningless. To be understood, a society...

...enables us to note several matters of distinct importance. It calls attention, first, to the fact that the essence of society lies in an ongoing process...action — not in a posited structure of relations. Without action, any structure of relations between people is meaningless. To be understood, a society...

...For Blumer, as with Mead, the study of group life is the study of the ongoing production of action: The essence of society lies in an ongoing process of action— not in the posited structure of relations. Without action, any structure of relations between people is meaningless....

...enables us to note several matters of distinct importance. It calls attention, first, to the fact that the essence of society lies in an ongoing process...action — not in a posited structure of relations. Without action, any structure of relations between people is meaningless. To be understood, a society...

...Paradigm (1962, 1966). Rather than structure, symbolic interactional processes are the fundamental units of social life: "[T]he essence of society lies in...in a posited structure of relations" (Blumer 1966, 541). Macrostructural forces never operate directly on individuals but are mediated through their interpretation...

...as a core concept. Herbert Blumer, one of the founders of symbolic interactionism, claims that ... the essence of society lies in an ongoing process of action — not in aposited structure of relations. Without action, any structure of relations between people is meaningless....