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Integrating the Theories of Blau, Blumer, and Mead

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theories of contextuality, symbolic interaction and social structure. From World War I into the mid 1930s, the faculty and graduate students included George Herbert Mead and Herbert Blumer. In 1934,  Meads "Mind, Self and Society" set the standards for studies in the field of symbolic interaction and the perception of self within society. When Herbert Blumer graduated and became a  faculty member at the Chicago School, he continued Meads studies of symbolic interaction but also separated the discipline into more scientific variables which would allow for a more exacting analysis  of the data from the 1930s to the 1950s. When Blumer later left to go to Berkeley, a young faculty member joined the Chicago School named Peter Blau. Blaus social  theories on social structure took several components of the works of Mead and Blumer in regards to an individuals self perception within society but also added the components that differentiate  societies which are based on nominal and gradation distinctions which cannot be separated from their influences within the context of society. George Herbert Meads and Herbert Blumers Theories The  Chicago School of sociology was recognized for its prominent work and publications produced by the faculty and the students of the school starting during World War I until the mid  1930s (Abbott, 1997). One of the major influences within the Chicago School was George Herbert Mead of the Chicago philosophy department. Several of the 1920s graduate students also became faculty  and continued on with the theories and works of the school, one of these new faculty members being Herbert Blumer (Abbott, 1997). The sociological theories of the Chicago school were  not merely based on the argument that social facts have context within time and space but also distinguished social facts in relation to their contextuality. In relation to time, the