George Herbert Mead, as an advocate of pragmatism and the subjectivity of social reality, is considered a leader in the development of interactionism. Herbert Blumer expanded on Mead's work and coined the term symbolic interactionism.

Who developed the Interactionist theory?

Thirty years ago, Richard Q. Bell (1968) introduced the idea of interactionism.

When was interactionism created?

Blumer's symbolic interactionism is a theory in sociology that focused in the 1930s on the study of interaction between people and brought in field studies as the data collection method of choice (Blumer, 1968).