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.
If you imagine that paradigms are like lenses in a pair of eyeglasses, there are several different lens styles worn by sociologists, and symbolic interactionism is one of them. Symbolic interactionism tends to focus on the language and symbols that