EXPLAIN EACH AND GIVE AN EXAMPLE 1.Meaning is an important outcome of communication. Your meanings are the result of interaction with others. 2.Mead saw gestures as the important mechanisms in social acts; a gesture is an aspect of the action taken as a sign of the action. He distinguished between gestures that are symbolic and those that are nonsymbolic. In nonsymbolic interaction, people or animals react directly to a gesture. 3.Mead called a gesture with shared meaning a significant symbol—the gesture indicates the future course of a social act. Symbolic interaction using significant gestures includes interpreting each other’s attitude and responding based on those interpretations.  4. Society, then, consists of a network of social interactions in which participants assign meaning to their own and others’ actions by the use of symbols. Indeed, the various institutions of society are built up by the interactions of people involved in those institutions.

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EXPLAIN EACH AND GIVE AN EXAMPLE

1.Meaning is an important outcome of communication. Your meanings are the result of interaction with others.

2.Mead saw gestures as the important mechanisms in social acts; a gesture is an aspect of the action taken as a sign of the action. He distinguished between gestures that are symbolic and those that are nonsymbolic. In nonsymbolic interaction, people or animals react directly to a gesture.

3.Mead called a gesture with shared meaning a significant symbol—the gesture indicates the future course of a social act. Symbolic interaction using significant gestures includes interpreting each other’s attitude and responding based on those interpretations. 

4. Society, then, consists of a network of social interactions in which participants assign meaning to their own and others’ actions by the use of symbols. Indeed, the various institutions of society are built up by the interactions of people involved in those institutions.

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