著者

桑原 司 Kuwabara Tsukasa

出版者

鹿児島大学

雑誌

Discussion papers in economics and sociology (ISSN:1347085X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.203, 2002-09-03

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The Chicago School of Symbolic Interactionism (one trend of the "Chicago Renaissance") represented by the works of Herbert Blumer, has been seen to be major alternative to functionalism and and social system theory in American Sociology. In addition, this approach also has been important in sociology as a critique of positivism. Furthermore, according to T. Shibutani, "it is too early for a final assessment of Blumer's work. That will have to wait until the twenty-first century, when future historians will be able to see what remains of current Sociology. It seems likely that many of his view will prevail." So far, We have done many reviewing about Blumer's Symbolic Interactionism. The results which could be gotten as the result are summarized in the following paper [Tsukasa Kuwabara, 2001,"Introduction to a sociological perspective of Symbolic Interactionism(3) (The Summary of a doctoral dissertation, Tohoku University), "KEIZAIGAKU-RONSHU- OF KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY (ISSN=0389-0104) :No.54, The Economic Society of Kagoshima University, pp.69-86]. In this article, we are trying to clarify theaspects which compose the reason why Blumer's Symbolic Interactionism is generally categorized as one trend of the "Chicago Renaissance".