Said in an industrialized society conflict arises from Authority and Power differences. People who have authority impose their values, rules, regulations, and ideas on the others. All social behavior is done through interaction. Interaction is needed for anything to exist. Everything is a symbol that shapes people.
Lives are shaped by symbols, symbols shape people s behavior.
Football players pat each other s butts, but if they pat some random person s butt they could get sued for sexual harassment. What we do is determined by how we individually interpret symbols. Clinton Sex Scandal is changing the meaning of moral values. Herbert Blumer Response based on meanings. Everybody is an actor playing a role, behaving the way society tells him or her to.