Blumer's Society As Symbolic Interaction

In Blumer’s writing, Society as Symbolic Interaction, he suggests that societal changes are not made simply by social structures and forces out of human control. Rather, the changes that are made are made by the individuals that compose the societies. They are the ones that make the changes as they define meanings between one another. Although the normal structures that sociologists look at when talking about what makes societies work are not the main focus of Blumer’s interactionism; he definitely acknowledges them as indicated on page 255. The organizations are important because they are also composed of the acting individual. Without them it would not be a structure at all. Thus he makes his way back to the point that individuals make up