University of Missouri (AB, MA) University of Chicago (PhD)
Influences
George Herbert Mead, W. I. Thomas, Charles H. Cooley, Robert Park, Georg Simmel, John Dewey, Charles Ellwood
Academic work
School or tradition
Chicago School of Sociology
Institutions
American Sociological Association University of Missouri University of Chicago University of California at Berkeley
Main interests
Sociology, symbolic interactionism, sociological research methods
Influenced
Erving Goffman, Anselm Strauss, Howard S. Becker, Tamotsu Shibutani
Herbert George Blumer (March 7, 1900 – April 13, 1987) was an American sociologist whose main scholarly interests were symbolic interactionism and methods of social research.[1] Believing that individuals create social reality through collective and individual action,[2] he was an avid interpreter and proponent of George Herbert Mead's social psychology, which he labeled symbolic interactionism.[3] Blumer elaborated and developed this line of thought in a series of articles, many of which were brought together in the book Symbolic Interactionism.[4] An ongoing theme throughout his work, he argued that the creation of social reality is a continuous process.[2] Blumer was also a vociferous critic of positivistic methodological ideas in sociology.[3][5][6]
^Herbert Blumer (1969). Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. p. vii. ISBN 9780138799243.
^ abMorrione, Thomas (Spring 1988). "Herbert G. Blumer (1900–1987): A Legacy of Concepts, Criticisms, and Contributions". Symbolic Interaction. 11, Special Issue on Herbert Blumer's Legacy (1): 1–12. doi:10.1525/si.1988.11.1.1.
^ abShibutani, Tamotsu (Spring 1988). "Blumer's Contributions to Twentieth-Century Sociology". Symbolic Interaction. 11 (1, Special Issue on Herbert Blumer's Legacy): 23–31. doi:10.1525/si.1988.11.1.23.
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^George Ritzer (1996). Classical Sociological Theory. McGraw Hill Companies. p. 59.
^Martyn Hammersley (1989). The Dilemma of Qualitative Method: Herbert Blumer and the Chicago tradition. London: Routledge.
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in-between social and sociological theories, such as: Harold Garfinkel, HerbertBlumer, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Pierre Bourdieu, and Erving Goffman. The field...
(although not centrality) of emotions. See the work of Gustav LeBon, HerbertBlumer, William Kornhauser, and Neil Smelser. Sociologists during the early...
(1945). It was also there where he studied symbolic interactionism under HerbertBlumer, but ultimately completed his doctoral dissertation under the supervision...
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symbolic interactionism of HerbertBlumer since Blumer's theory had no end to the openness of action. Parsons regarded Blumer as the mirror image of Claude...
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at first released slowly, only one or two a decade until the 1950s. HerbertBlumer was the first to specifically use the term "social contagion”, in his...
of study. He wished to write and think, and after reading philosopher Herbert Spencer's works, Cooley realized he had an interest in social problems...
Collins encountered many influential sociologists of his day, including HerbertBlumer, Philip Selznick and Leo Löwenthal. He worked with Joseph Ben-David...
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interactions. Based on the pragmatic social psychology of George Herbert Mead (1863–1931), HerbertBlumer (1900–1987) and, later, the Chicago school, sociologists...
Popular Mind". A decade later the term “social contagion” was coined by HerbertBlumer to be a broad umbrella term. Following this, other researchers such...
called Wechselwirkungen, are the basis for society itself, according to HerbertBlumer. Interaction can be either direct or indirect. Interaction is direct...
role in American sociology, with the theories of George Herbert Mead and his student HerbertBlumer resulting in the creation of the symbolic interactionism...
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