Views society as an active influence that influences everyday social interactions. Individuals manipulate symbols and create their social worlds through interactions maintained by a shared understanding of everyday behavior. Unlike functionalist and conflict theorists, integrationists view human interaction at the micro level and generalize about everyday social interactions to explain society as a whole. In interactionism, humans are seen as living in a meaningful world of objects such as symbols that play an important role in communication. Symbolic interaction is known as nonverbal communication, which includes facial expressions and many other gestures shared among all members of society. Erving Goffman created a popular method of interactionism called the dramaturgical approach. It compares daily life in a theater because, just like actors, individuals only present certain characteristics of their personality depending on the environmental setting. Therefore, interactionism consists of communication and interaction at the micro level to understand broader macrophenomena (Schaefer
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