<P> Human agency emphasizes the active, willful, goal seeking character of human actors . The emphasis on agency focuses attention on those actions, events, and moments in social life in which agentic action is especially palpable . </P> <Dl> <Dt> Interactive determination </Dt> </Dl> <P> Interactive determination specifies that understanding of focal objects of analysis, whether they are self - concepts, identities, roles, practices, or even social movements . Basically this means, neither individual, society, self, or others exist only in relation to each other and therefore can be fully understood only in terms of their interaction . </P> <Dl> <Dt> Symbolization </Dt> </Dl>

Symbolic interactionists focus heavily on the fact that human interaction consists primarily of