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19 Cards in this Set
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Cooley bio
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1864-1929
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Cooley's main ideas
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Our consciousness is social, our language is social (even I and mine are social)
"I" is not all of self, it is like a nucleus in the larger cell self, the other part is social Sometimes we equate I with our body, even then there is a social dimension to I |
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The looking glass self
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1. Idea of Other's perception
2. Idea of other's judgement 3. Self feeling |
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Primary Groups
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Family
Playground Neighborhood Others? |
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Mead bio
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1863-1931
Religous background, influenced by cooley and Dewey, Taught at UM, then Chicago |
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Mead key question
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What is the Social Basis of Individual action
Mind Self and Society |
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The Social development of self
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Self arises in child's social experience using language and symbols
1. Imitation 2. Role Play 3. Games 4. "Generalized Other" |
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The Self as object
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The Self is reflexive: What I see when I view myself is adopted from the way others see me
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The I and Me
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I = creative, impulsive, acts - changes world around
Me = judgemental, controlling, imprinted by the world - constrains |
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Even thinking is...
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social!
Because we use symbols, words, language to think. It is a socially trained skill |
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Behaviorism VS Mean
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Behaviorism - raw reaction, impulse
Mead - Before acting, individuals consider the socially defined meaning of both stimulus and their potential responses. THINK before ACTING |
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Gestures
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An action calling forth a response from another (Stimulus)
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Significant symbols
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Gestures that have a shared meaning for sender and receiver
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Symbolic Interaction
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People act toward thinks based on the meaning those things have for them. These meanings are derived/modified from social interaction.
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Traditional Sociology
Individuals are the media through which outside forces/institutions operate |
Symbolic Interaction
Individuals have a "self" and are intentional |
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Traditional Sociology
Social behaviors are not constructed, they are reactions |
Symbolic Interaction
Social behaviors are based on individuals' interpretation of the situation |
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Traditional Sociology
Social action is lodged in society or some unit of society |
Symbolic Interaction
Social action is lodged in the individual |
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Traditional sociology
Societal organizations/units determine individual action |
Social interaction
Societal organizations provide framework for action and fixed set of symbols |
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Traditional sociology
Sociology is the study of structures and their impact on actions (functionalism) |
Social interaction
Sociology is the study of process of interpretation by which people determine their actions |
