House MD: Meaning

Theories are tools used to explain and predict different circumstances. Symbolic interactionism is a theory that people use to explain and predict. Using this theory, the clip House MD: Meaning can analyzed. However, it is important to note that theories do have weaknesses as well as strengths. This theory with both strengths and weaknesses can be used to explain communication interaction.
Symbolic interactionism is a term coined by Hubert Blummer, but is credited to the teachings of George Herbert Mead. The term is defined as “the ongoing use of language and gestures of how the other will react, a conversation”. There are three parts to the perspective of symbolic interactionism. Firstly, humans act toward things on the basis of the meanings
The definition basically means that people will decide how to act based on the meaning, or the way they see someone or something. This meaning the effects of the interaction is essentially based on experience which causes preconceived notions to become part of the communication process. In the clip, a boy already decided who his father was based on his own experience of taking care of him that he could would not accept what happened even though he was there. The meanings of people, objects, and ideas are based on the interactions with other people and creates experiences.
A conversation taking place during one of the episodes of “House: MD”, a popular television show, can be used to explain symbolic interaction and predict future conversations with the cast in this clip. The clip titled Meaning is about a son who will not accept that his father chose to commit suicide. The father had brain cancer and was unable to communicate or take care of himself for years. During the clip, the father is having operation while the son, mother, and House are all watching it take place. While the surgery is occurring there was an important communication process taking place. The clip opens
This would normally be a sign or symbol for giving up on life, and this would make sense due to his condition. After House made the statement that the father was a “drool”, it would not make sense that he would attempt to kill himself. The meaning provided by history and other instances attached to suicide was hopelessness, but House’s wisdom changes that meaning for the symbol of suicide at least for the father’s case. He was letting the family know he was not giving up of life. What can also be gathered from the interaction, is that the father realized how his family saw him. His “me” was understood to be a helpless trapped soul and his “I” was fighting to break