<Li> Humans' capability of modification is due to their ability to interact with themselves . </Li> <Li> The intertwining of interaction and action make up groups and societies . </Li> <P> According to Herbert Blumer, the most valid and desirable social research is conducted through qualitative, ethnographic methodology . He persistently critiqued the idea that the only form of valid knowledge is derived through a totally objective perspective . Blumer believed that theoretical and methodological approaches to studying human behavior must acknowledge human beings as thinking, acting, and interacting individuals and also must employ that represent the humanly known, socially created, and experienced world . As this directly challenges the thought process of traditional, positivism - based approach to sociological method, much controversy surrounds Blumer's sociological approach to empirical research . </P> <P> Blumer believed that when positivistic methods were applied to social research, they created results that were ignorant to the empirical realities of the social world . Because people act towards the world based on the subjective meanings they attribute to different objects (symbolic interactionism), individuals construct worlds that are inherently subjective . Therefore, "objective" analysis is intrinsically subjugated to the researcher's own social reality, only documents the researchers own grotesque personal assumptions about social interaction, and ultimately yields bias findings . For a researcher to truly understand sociological phenomena, Blumer asserted, they must understand their subject's subjective interpretations of reality . </P>

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