This term was coined in 1937 by Herbert Blumer, who characterized this approach by the five points of human interaction, interpretation rather than reaction, response based on meaning, use of symbols, and interpretation between stimulus and response.  
This term was coined in 1937 by Herbert Blumer, who characterized this approach by the five points of human interaction, interpretation rather than reaction, response based on meaning, use of symbols, and interpretation between stimulus and response.  Its most advanced treatment can be found in 1959's The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman, who studied unusual situations in which people maintain their selfhood.  A sociological technique that studies the behavior of individuals through their relationships, FTP, identify this two-word method founded by George Herbert Mead.
This term was coined in 1937 by Herbert Blumer, who characterized this approach by the five points of human interaction, interpretation rather than reaction, response based on meaning, use of symbols, and interpretation between stimulus and response.  
symbolic interactionism