Symbolic Interactionism

          Today's day and age may not recognize the affects of social isolation. Symbolic interactionism is essential to normal personality development, interaction produces the social self. As individuals linked into society this social self is very important in human behavior. Symbolic interactionism is a way to adapt to the enviroment around you. For example a person that suffers from social isolation lacks the symbolic interactionism may be the outcast in a crowded room away from the other people in the room, due to lack of interaction with others during the developmental stages of growth were as, on the other hand. A person with the developed personality may enter the room and start introducing themselves to others. 

Henslin, J. M. (2012). Sociology a Down-to-Earth Approach (11th ed.).