21. The weakness common to all these arguments against interactionism is that they put all introspective insight in doubt. 22. Sociologists representing symbolic interactionism argue that social rules are created through the interaction between the members of a society. 23. Sheldon Stryker, a social constructionist has had an incredible amount of influence on the field of Social Interactionism . 24. In order to understand how perceptions of immigrants are formed and constructed, symbolic interactionism theory has been utilized. 25. Erving Goffman and Howard Becker used the lives of gay-identified persons in their theories of labeling and interactionism . 26. Dramaturgy or Dramaturgical Perspective is a specialized symbolic interactionism paradigm developed by Erving Goffman, seeing life as a performance. 27. Interactionism had become popular in America in the 1950s and 1960s as a politically radical alternative to structural-functionalism.28. His book " The Hidden Society " from 1965 was inspired by symbolic interactionism and the Chicago school. 29. Couch's thoughts were influenced by George Herbert Mead who was credited with the foundational elements of symbolic interactionism . 30. In that year he also received the Charles H . Cooley Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism .
