A child must be your child, step child, adopted child, foster child, brother or sister, or a descendant of one of these (for example, a grandchild or nephew).
As a broad theory, symbolic interactionism appeared in the 20-s of XX century, in the Chicago school, its founder was an American sociologist George Mead. George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) is an American sociologist and social psychologist, who is considered a true founder of symbolic interactionism.
Cite this page: Nugent, Pam M.S., SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM, in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 13, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/symbolic-interactionism/ (accessed August 22, 2017).