Herbert Blumer

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Herb Blumer
Positions:
Guard , Tackle , End 		Jersey number (s):
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born March 7, 1900 in St. Louis , Missouri
died on April 13, 1987 in Danville , California
Career information
Active : 1925 - 1933
College : Missouri
Teams
Career statistics
Games played     59
Stats at NFL.com
Stats at pro-football-reference.com
Career highlights and awards
  • 1 × All-Pro (1929)

Herbert "Herb" George Blumer (born March 7, 1900 in St. Louis , Missouri , † April 13, 1987 in Danville , California ) was an American American football player, and sociologist and student of George Herbert Mead . He was the 46th president of the American Sociological Association and is considered the founder of the Second Chicago School of Sociology .

Youth / football players

Herbert Blumer grew up as the son of a cabinet maker in St. Louis. His mother was a housewife. From 1918 to 1922 he studied at the University of Missouri and played college football there . After graduating, he worked as a lecturer in Missouri.

In 1925 he received a doctorate from the University of Chicago . That same year he signed a professional contract with the Chicago Cardinals . The Cardinals played in the National Football League (NFL). Herb Blumer was used by the team in various positions, but he mainly found time as a guard in the offense of the team and was there responsible for the protection of quarterback Paddy Driscoll . In the 1925 season, Blumer scored two touchdowns and became NFL champions with his team . In 1929 he was voted All-Pro . After 59 games in the NFL, Blumer ended his playing career in 1933.

sociologist

After Mead's illness-related departure, Blumer took over his main lecture and continued his work - teaching at the University of Chicago from 1925, moving to Berkeley in 1952 .

He coined the term symbolic interactionism in 1937 and summarized Mead's ideas in the following three premises:

  1. People act towards things based on the importance these things have to them.
  2. This meaning arises through social interaction.
  3. The meanings are changed through an interpretive process that the person uses in dealing with the things they encounter.

Retirement and retirement

After his retirement in 1967 at the University of California, Berkeley , Herbert Blumer was still an emeritus until 1986. His health deteriorated significantly from 1985 and he died on April 13, 1987 in Danville , California . He left behind his wife Marcia and two daughters.

Fonts (selection)

  • Movies and Conduct (1933)
  • Movies, Delinquency and Crime (1933)
  • Human Side of Social Planning (1935)
  • Social Psychology , in: EP Schmidt (ed.), Man and Society. A noun introduction to the social science . New York 1937, p. 144-198
  • Critiques of Research in the Social Sciences: An Appraisal of Thomas and Znaniecki's "The Polish Peasant in Europe and America" (1939)
  • Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method (1969)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual statistics of the Cardinals 1925
  2. ↑ a b Herb Blumer NFL Football Statistics - Pro-Football-Reference.com. In: pro-football-reference.com. Retrieved October 9, 2013 .
  3. ^ Herbert Blumer: George Herbert Mead and Human Conduct . Introduction and remarks by Thomas J. Morrione. AltaMira Press, 2004, ISBN 0-7591-0467-0 , Appendix 3: Herbert Blumer: A Biography, p. 179 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Blumer, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blumer, Herbert George (full name); Blumer, Herb (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1987
Place of death Danville , California