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Snow, David (2001). "Extending and Broadening Blumer's Conceptualization of Symbolic Interactionism". Symbolic Interaction. 3. 24 (3): 367–377. doi:10.1525/si.2001.24.3.367.
Low, Jacqueline (2008). "Structure, Agency, and Social Reality in Blumerian Symbolic Interactionism: The Influence of Georg Simmel". Symbolic Interaction. 31 (3): 325–343. doi:10.1525/si.2008.31.3.325.
Wellman, David (1988). "The Politics of Herbert Blumer's Sociological Method". Symbolic Interaction. 11 (1, Special Issue on Herbert Blumer's Legacy): 59–68. doi:10.1525/si.1988.11.1.59.
Puddeuphat, Antony (2009). "The Search for Meaning: Revisiting Herbert Blumer's Interpretation of G.H. Mead". American Sociologist. 40 (1–2): 89–105. doi:10.1007/s12108-009-9067-0. S2CID144158848.
Reichelmann, A.V. (2021). "Collective threat: Conceptualizing Blumer's threat as a collective emotion". Sociological Inquiry. 91 (3): 534–588. doi:10.1111/soin.12366. S2CID219485662.
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Blumer explains social interaction as a mutual presentation of actions by actors. He classifies social interactions into two categories, i.e., "symbolic interaction" and "non-symbolic interaction." The former is mediated by self-interaction, the latter is not. It has been thought that symbolic interaction is the equivalent of "the use of significant symbols," in Mead's terminology and that non-symbolic interaction is the equivalent of Mead's "conversation of gestures." However, the greater precision of Kuwabara's analysis demonstrates the existence of at least two types of symbolic interaction, distinctly different from each other: symbolic interaction in which significant symbols do not yet exist but participants in the interaction are trying to call them into being, and symbolic interaction mediated by significant symbols called into being by participants in a preceding interaction. The latter is called "a real form of interaction" or transaction/joint action. Cf. Kuwabara T., and K. Yamaguchi, 2013, An Introduction to the Sociological Perspective of Symbolic Interactionism, The Joint Journal of the National Universities in Kyushu, Education and Humanities, 1(1), pp. 1–11.
Wiseman, J. P. (1987). "In memoriam: Herbert Blumer (1900-1987)". Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 16 (3): 243–249. doi:10.1177/0891241687163001. S2CID145410939.
Puddeuphat, Antony (2009). "The Search for Meaning: Revisiting Herbert Blumer's Interpretation of G.H. Mead". American Sociologist. 40 (1–2): 89–105. doi:10.1007/s12108-009-9067-0. S2CID144158848.