George Herbert Mead is an American Pragmatist who invented a well-known theory called “Mind, Self and Society ”. According to this, Mead has a completely different point of views from the other sociologist and psychologist who believed in the development of individual selves that basically based on biological factors and inherit traits. So, he rejected the idea of behaviorism or the disagreement of the independent existence of mind and consciousness, then applied the usage of pragmatism instead. While many behaviorists concluded that human’s reactions have no free-will, Mead againsts all this ideas by saying that most of the living things are so identical that their behaviors are predictable. He believes that people do have free will and this
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Contributing to the emergence of the self and society, human development is the main factor that make the self changes and starts to give more attention to the others. For Mead, self can be classified into three stages which are preparatory stage, play stage and game stage. To begin with, preparatory or language stage is the first stage talking about the basis form of the human communication such as symbols, gestures, words and sounds which eventually developed to a play stage. This stage is when oneself developed through allowing each person to take on different roles and notice on other perspective. Last is a game stage which develop self by become conscious on other opinion and understand rules of the activity. Thus, this turns up to “the self” and as the number of interaction increases, it becomes a “society”. Mead mentioned one more important theory that included in “Mind, Self and Society” theory called the theory of Stimulus - Interpretation - Response (S-I-R). This theory describe the relationships of individual and society. Unlike animal, human has capacities to use symbol and also, human has more complexity. Before response, human will comprehend first and then make a decision to respond to stimulus. Higher stage of S-I-R is S-I-C-R which added choices into the program, this is to detail person that is more intelligent …show more content…
People move into the city working in the industrial sectors in order to receive wages which just enough to survive. The interaction between human is decreased than it used to be. Therefore, Max Weber, an important sociologist came out and research for the process of human interaction. Max Weber is a German sociologist in nineteenth Century who is considered to be one of the most influential figure in the early twentieth Century. He works on human rationality and social organization which later on launches two most famous theories which are “Rationalization thesis” and the “Protestant Ethic thesis”.
Max Weber rejected Capitalism because he believes that it destroys the interaction between individuals and societies. Unlike Marx who concerned about the struggle classes in the society, Weber observed this situation and focused on how capitalism destroys human relations, human freedom, and human communication which reducing by role and function. According to his research, Weber established the concept of the “Iron cage” to explain the way that societies become more
Contributing to the emergence of the self and society, human development is the main factor that make the self changes and starts to give more attention to the others. For Mead, self can be classified into three stages which are preparatory stage, play stage and game stage. To begin with, preparatory or language stage is the first stage talking about the basis form of the human communication such as symbols, gestures, words and sounds which eventually developed to a play stage. This stage is when oneself developed through allowing each person to take on different roles and notice on other perspective. Last is a game stage which develop self by become conscious on other opinion and understand rules of the activity. Thus, this turns up to “the self” and as the number of interaction increases, it becomes a “society”. Mead mentioned one more important theory that included in “Mind, Self and Society” theory called the theory of Stimulus - Interpretation - Response (S-I-R). This theory describe the relationships of individual and society. Unlike animal, human has capacities to use symbol and also, human has more complexity. Before response, human will comprehend first and then make a decision to respond to stimulus. Higher stage of S-I-R is S-I-C-R which added choices into the program, this is to detail person that is more intelligent …show more content…
People move into the city working in the industrial sectors in order to receive wages which just enough to survive. The interaction between human is decreased than it used to be. Therefore, Max Weber, an important sociologist came out and research for the process of human interaction. Max Weber is a German sociologist in nineteenth Century who is considered to be one of the most influential figure in the early twentieth Century. He works on human rationality and social organization which later on launches two most famous theories which are “Rationalization thesis” and the “Protestant Ethic thesis”.
Max Weber rejected Capitalism because he believes that it destroys the interaction between individuals and societies. Unlike Marx who concerned about the struggle classes in the society, Weber observed this situation and focused on how capitalism destroys human relations, human freedom, and human communication which reducing by role and function. According to his research, Weber established the concept of the “Iron cage” to explain the way that societies become more