Developed by credits the thinkers whose work actually built a social theory. Wikipedia notes structural functionalism's "organic or biological analogy" was "popularized by Herbert Spencer," and Wikipedia elsewhere records Durkheim "was a major proponent of structural functionalism, a foundational perspective in both sociology and anthropology." This dimension traces a theory back to the people who built and popularized it.
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Symbolic interactionism is a sociological theory that develops from practical considerations and alludes to humans' particular use of shared language to create common symbols and meanings, for use in both intra- and interpersonal communication.
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