ABSTRACT
Self is an ever-fertile concept for an interactionist approach to contemporary issues. As Herbert Blumer (1969:21 fn) stated, “In elevating the ‘self’ to a position of paramount importance and in recognizing that its formation and realization occur […] in the joint activities of group life, symbolic interactionism provides […] a provocative philosophical scheme […] attuned to social experience.” As such, the concept of self references a multi-dimensional phenomenon intrinsic to all social dynamics.
