The symbolic interactionist who taught at the University of Chicago and stressed that play was crucial to the development of the concept of self was ________.
A) Charles Horton Cooley
B) Lester Ward
C) George Herbert Mead
D) Talcott Parsons

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George Herbert Mead was a symbolic interactionist who taught at the University of Chicago and emphasized the role of play in the development of the self. Charles Horton Cooley was also a symbolic interactionist who focused on the concept of the looking-glass self, but did not specifically emphasize the role of play. Lester Ward was a sociologist who was influential in the development of the discipline, but was not a symbolic interactionist. Talcott Parsons was a structural functionalist, not a symbolic interactionist.

The Symbolic Interactionist Who Taught at the University of Chicago