Subscriber login
Password
Forgot your password?
Library card login
Login with Shibboleth® »
Login with Athens »
Close menu
Oxford Dictionaries Online
The world's most trusted dictionaries
About
Subscriber services
What's new
Contact us
Help
Subscribe now
Already a subscriber or in a subscribing organization?
Login
Dictionary
Other language resources
US English
World English
Dictionary
Better writing
World of words
Puzzles and games
For children and schools
For learners of English
Email
Cite
symbolic interactionism
(sym|bol¦ic inter|action|ism)
noun
[
mass noun
]
Sociology
the view of social behaviour that emphasizes linguistic or gestural communication and its subjective understanding, especially the role of language in the formation of the child as a social being.
More words in this category
bad manners
caring profession
conciliator
countryman
D
1
elective affinity
exogenous
false consciousness
familist
free love
hereditarian
hikikomori
plural society
proxemics
skill set
social engineering
social inquiry report
Nearby Words
Sylvian fissure
sylvine
sylvinite
sylvite
sym-
symbiont
symbiosis
symbol
symbolic
symbolic interactionism
symbolic logic
symbolism
symbolize
symbology
symmetrical
symmetry
symmetry breaking
Symons, Julian
sympathectomy