Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
14 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Who develop STI?
|
The name, “ Symbolic Interaction,” was not a creation of George Herbert Mead. One of his students, Herbert Blumer, actually coined the term, but it was clearly Mead’s work that began the theoretical movement.
|
|
|
People act based on?
|
Symbolic meanings that are
created between them |
|
|
Goal of SIT
|
To understand (explain):
– how humans, through interaction, create symbolic worlds – how these worlds, affect human behavior |
|
|
SIT’s Key Concepts
|
Mind
Self Society |
|
|
Mind
|
The ability to use symbols that have common social meanings
|
|
|
Mind: Explanation
|
We can not interact with others until we learn
language Language uses significant symbols Symbolic: symbols with shared meanings Through language we: – share meanings – anticipate responses of others Mind reflects and creates society How? – Language to learn norms of society – Change norms Mind allows thought Without social interaction, we can’t think Why? – language develops through interaction – use language to think |
|
|
Self
|
Ability to reflect on ourselves from the
perspective of others |
|
|
Self: Explanation
|
Self develops from role taking
–Role taking: taking perspective of others Imagining how we come across to others – Looking-glass Self (Cooley, 1912) –Pygmalion Effect |
|
|
Society: Defined
|
The web of social relationships humans create
|
|
|
Society: Explanation
|
Created by individuals interacting
Creates individual “selfs” – particular others (significant others) – generalized others (society as a whole) |
|
|
A Central Theme of SIT:
|
The importance of meanings
Humans act towards others on the basis of meanings those others have for them. *a Meaning is created /modified through interaction. |
|
|
Looking- glass self:
|
our ability to see ourselves as another sees us
|
|
|
Pygmalion effect:
|
living up to or down to another’s expectations of us
|
|
|
Ontological assumptions:
|
We do make choices. Humanist hard core. social experiences. context matters. K
|
