Abstract

POSADA ZAPATA, Isabel Cristina  and  CARMONA PARRA, Jaime Alberto. Mead's Symbolic Interactionism and Karl Popper's Argument for Indeterminism. CES Psicol [online]. 2021, vol.14, n.3, pp.171-190.  Epub Apr 21, 2022. ISSN 2011-3080.  https://doi.org/10.21615/cesp.5599.

The article presents a journey through some discursive expressions of Determinism and Indeterminism, from Classical Greece to Modern Science, as a preamble to understand the place of George Mead's Symbolic Interactionism in Social Sciences, and then explore the relationship of this theoretical perspective and methodological with a proposal by Karl Pooper exposed in his posthumous text "An Argument for Indeterminism" and show the powerful possible articulations between both perspectives. From this review it can be concluded that Interactionism is situated as a dialectical solution between the postulates of Determinism and Indeterminism, where the perspective of an active human being is offered, who as an agent, builds his life in the interaction with other symbolic referents. The agent as an actor is situated on a plane where he becomes a product and producer of his life from language.

Keywords : determinism; indeterminism; interactionism; reflexivity; agency; symbolic interactionism; George Mead; Karl Popper.

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