In your own words, discuss Blumer’s following statement “It is the social process in group life that creates and upholds the rules, not the rules that create and uphold group life”.
What will be an ideal response?
That joint actions, and the institutions that they sustain, take on repetitive and stable forms is a function not of an organization’s “inner dynamics” or “system requirements,” but of the recurring use of schemes of interpretation and definition. Thus, even established patterns of group life are constantly “formed anew” because they are “just as much a result of an interpretive process as is a new form of joint action that is being developed for the first time” (ibid.:18). Whether the occasion of a joint action is a first-time collaboration between new coworkers or a weekly family dinner, fitting together lines of conduct is based on the shared meanings that participants ascribe to the situation.
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Fill in the blanks with correct word