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• Mead's main sociological theme was social cohesion. He tried to examine the factors that keep people together.
• According to Mead, symbols are the foundation stones to human social cohesion and order (whereas others have relied on biological drives, economic interests, quest for power and need for survival).
• According to the symbolic interactionists, symbols, language and communication must be examined if we are to gain any understanding of our uniquely social nature.
• As they advocate, the first step in beginning to comprehend the cohesive nature of symbols is to recognize that symbols can infact construct a reality of their own.
• Special about symbols is that they do not elicit a particular response like does signs, instead they must be interpreted by those engaged in symbolic exchange.
• This is to say that where there is sharing of symbolic content, there interaction is relatively ordered and easy.
• Where symbolic content is not shared then interaction is considerably inhibited.
• Symbols are therefore of special importance for the formation of communication. It is through language (symbolic or verbal) that humans have been able to form the most elaborated and unusual social and cultural systems on earth.
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