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When Mead had to give up his position as a lecturer at the University Of Chicago due to illness, Blumer took over and continued his work. In his 1937 article "Social Psychology", Blumer coined the term Symbolic Interactionism and summarised Mead's ideas into three premises:
In 1952 Blumer became the Chair of the new Sociology department at the University Of California, Berkeley . He was secretary-treasurer, and later President, of the American Sociological Association . Blumer was presented with the association's Award for a Career of Distinguished Scholarship in 1983 . Anselm Strauss , who worked as a research assistant with Blumer, co-founded Grounded Theory . WORKS
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