Prelims · 6 Indian Society · 6.2 Western thinkers

6.2.5 Interactionist and other perspectives: Cooley, Mead, Goffman, Simmel, Tönnies, Pareto and Mills

Interactionists study how people build the self and social reality through everyday interaction and symbols; alongside them stand thinkers on community (Tönnies), forms of interaction (Simmel), elites (Pareto, Michels, Mills) and the city, consumption and knowledge.

  • APPSC Group 2 · Prelims
  • Standard level
  • 8 min read
  • Full course

Key terms

  • symbolic interactionism
  • Cooley
  • Mead
  • Blumer
  • Goffman
  • dramaturgy
  • stigma
  • Garfinkel
  • ethnomethodology
  • Simmel
  • formal sociology
  • Tönnies
  • Gemeinschaft
  • Gesellschaft
  • Pareto
  • circulation of elites
  • Michels
  • Mills
  • power elite
  • Veblen
  • Mannheim
  • Wirth

What this note covers

  1. Core factsFoundation
  2. ExplainedStandard
  3. DeeperAdvanced
  4. Mains writingMains writing
  5. Common trapsFoundation
  6. Quick revisionFoundation

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