Mead The Self Analysis

For Mead the Self is made up two interrelated dimensions, the me and the I: the me is a result of talking the standpoint of the other and seeing yourself from the standpoint of the other’s attitude and expectations of you, while the I is the self’s response to the others attitude and expectations. As for, Simmel the core of the self and the basic of its individuality are partially made possible by its capacity to have secrets and all human interaction involves what you know about the others as well as what you don’t know or that which remains a secret. Mead analyses his theory of the social self-dimension, which includes the concepts of the “self”, “me” and “I”. He stated the human-self can distinguish between the self and body. The …show more content…
this mean you is aware of what you are doing indirectly appear to yourself by doing something out there in the common with other doing other things. The ability to become aware of itself is when is doing something with other-self of not to be doing the same things, for example: Thomas long is lecturing and the student is not is depend upon the idea of lecture where by a person lecture where people do it differently and sometime the student listen or ask question that is what Thomas long become aware off that common activity of lecturing is depend upon the student to see the act and common activity. This the mark of the “Me” itself its take the standpoint of the other someone else seeing itself from that standpoint that what its mean for example, when professor Thomas Long see himself as lecturing is not just somethings he does or act, he is seeing himself in standpoint of other who is not lecturing or listening to him. If you see yourself as a parent giving the child advices and you seeing yourself from the standpoint of view of other, the child is seeing you as parent giving advices that is the common activity in what you engaged and you can become aware of its absolutely that is the characteristic of the human-self or self in general, but it’s depend upon how the other-self see you is engaging in that common activity. You become aware of things by doing things with others than this is mean is you the ability to take the other side standpoint and see yourself from the standpoint of the others that itself that why you can’t have isolated itself and you need to have other human-self. Its only become reality if you do