Question: Who is one of the founding fathers of symbolic interactionism?

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question: Who is one of the founding fathers of symbolic interactionism, born in Massachusettes?
short_answers: George Herbert Mead

Mead

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question: Who is one of the founding fathers of symbolic interactionism, born in Michigan?
short_answers: Charles Horton Cooley

Cooley

Charles Cooley

context: Herbert Blumer, a student and interpreter of Mead, coined the term and put forward an influential summary: people act a certain way towards things based on the meaning those things already have, and these meanings are derived from social interaction and modified through interpretation. Blumer was a social constructionist, and was influenced by John Dewey; as such, this theory is very phenomenologically-based. Given that Blumer was the first to use symbolic interaction as a term, he is known as the founder of symbolic interaction. He believed that the "Most human and humanizing activity that people engage in is talking to each other." According to Blumer, human groups are created by people and it is only actions between them that define a society. He argued that with interaction and through interaction individuals are able to "produce common symbols by approving, arranging, and redefining them." Having said that, interaction is shaped by a mutual exchange of interpretation, the ground of socialization.
question: Who is one of the founding fathers of symbolic interactionism that coined the term?
short_answers: Blumer

Herbert George Blumer

Herbert Blumer
wikipage: Symbolic interactionism

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knowledge: content: Symbolic interactionism is a sociological theory that develops from practical considerations and alludes to particular effects of communication and interaction in people to make images and normal implications, for deduction and correspondence with others.[1] In other words, it is a frame of reference to better understand how individuals interact with one another to create symbolic worlds, and in return, how these worlds shape individual behaviors.
wikipage: Symbolic interactionism

content: Symbolic interaction was conceived by George Herbert Mead and Charles Horton Cooley.
wikipage: Symbolic interactionism

content: George Herbert Mead (February 27, 1863 – April 26, 1931) was an American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist, primarily affiliated with the University of Chicago, where he was one of several distinguished pragmatists. 
wikipage: George Herbert Mead

content: Charles Horton Cooley (August 17, 1864 – May 7, 1929) was an American sociologist and the son of Michigan Supreme Court Judge Thomas M. Cooley.
wikipage: Charles Cooley
long_answer: Symbolic interactionism is a sociological theory that is a frame of reference to better understand how individuals interact with one another to create symbolic worlds, and in return, how these worlds shape individual behaviors. Symbolic interaction was conceived by George Herbert Mead, an American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist born in Massachusetts, and Charles Horton Cooley, an American sociologist born in Michigan, and the son of Michigan Supreme Court Judge Thomas M. Cooley. Herbert George Blumer, a student and interpreter of Mead, coined the term and is known as the founder of symbolic interactionism.  Blumer was a social constructionist, and was influenced by John Dewey.