How we choose to respect the people around us depends on how we are taught about the society around us during the primary and secondary socialization stages of life. At this period in life it is possible for the people around us (family, mass media, school, and the peer group) to affect how we choose to interact with society. With that in mind, this can determine how we respond to positive and negative deviants in society. Furthermore, I found that symbolic interaction, face-to-face positive deviance, was a hard task to complete. However, the more I did it and the more positive outcomes that I had the more my empowerment, encouragement change. One out of the five times, were the people around us noticed, they responded positively by also
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Thinking back to Charles H. Cooley, the looking glass self, theory, I want to believe that the society and the subjects viewed me as positive role model for their future selves. When thinking about George Herbert Meads, the Me, I found it was very easy to continue the acts when I received positive responses, but when given a negative response it was much harder to continue with the next deviant. The negative response affected my Self more than any of the others deviants, it caused me to view my self-awareness and self-image differently, I felt as though I was doing something wrong. With that in mind, everyone who responded positively was vocal about it, they thanked me, they expressed what they would do with the $5.00, while their non-verbal signs expressed their happiness, gratitude and thankfulness, many asked for handshakes or hugs. While the single subject who declined, simply rushed off. With that, why did subject two decline the positive
Thinking back to Charles H. Cooley, the looking glass self, theory, I want to believe that the society and the subjects viewed me as positive role model for their future selves. When thinking about George Herbert Meads, the Me, I found it was very easy to continue the acts when I received positive responses, but when given a negative response it was much harder to continue with the next deviant. The negative response affected my Self more than any of the others deviants, it caused me to view my self-awareness and self-image differently, I felt as though I was doing something wrong. With that in mind, everyone who responded positively was vocal about it, they thanked me, they expressed what they would do with the $5.00, while their non-verbal signs expressed their happiness, gratitude and thankfulness, many asked for handshakes or hugs. While the single subject who declined, simply rushed off. With that, why did subject two decline the positive