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Anarchic and stagnant society By Prof Dr Sohail Ansari & The symbolic interaction perspective

And whosoever is slowed down by his actions will not be hastened forward by his lineage. Hadith recorded in An-Nawawi Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation . Max Weber Vibrant society is not uncontrolled ·       Society minus unity in diversity is anarchic and minus diversity is stagnant. Society is unity in diversity. George Herbert Mead The  symbolic interaction perspective The  symbolic interaction perspective, also called  symbolic interactionism , is a major framework of sociological theory. This perspective relies on the  symbolic   meaning that people develop and rely upon in the process of social i nteraction . "Herbert Blumer, a student and interpreter of Mead, coined the term " symbolic interactionism " and put forward an influential summary of the  perspective : people act toward things based on the meaning those things have for them ; and these meanings are deriv

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Carlyle  is not eligible to talk As language evolves and expands it grows richer not only by incorporating new words in its repertoire, but also by adding new meanings to a word. One word, therefore, acquires many meanings. It is possible, a poet wanted to convey one meaning through a word, and a reader/a critic is driven to another meaning. It is possible as well that the meaning of a word was non-existent when a poet uttered a couplet.   Meaning was added later and readers of later time interpreted it in accordance with a meaning added later. The fact that a couplet is susceptible of various interpretations or more than one possible meaning does no damage except that true intentions of the poet may not be conveyed. It is therefore definitely not always important and perhaps not all important to know what the poet means by a couplet if intentions of a poet are not at all important to know. The damage is done in case intentions of a poet are important to know. It is often sa