Joel M. Charon

A fluffy and superficial introduction to Symbolic Interactionism. Despite the difficulties of tackling Mead or Blumer, their texts seem to me much better presentations of Symbolic Interactionist ideas.

(And what's with the obsession of S.I. to distinguish humans from other animals in every possible domain? Use of symbols, language, social patterns... I understand people in Mead's time to make this mistake, but to insist on it today is just silly.)