George Herbert Mead Flashcards
Historically specific cultural situations that solve problems for people in those situations.
Values
Beliefs that are confirmed from experience. Suspect to revisionism
Truth
Assess truth based on rightness or usefulness of its practical consequences.
Pragmatism
Psychological behaviourism
Watson
Study of people from the inside (individual) as well as from the outside (society)
Social behaviourism
EX: Dog getting excited from sound of treat box.
Natural sign
Idea that arouses same response in self and others
Significant gestures
Most significant, significant gesture
Language
3 Stages of learning to take the attitude of the other
Play
Game
Generalized other
What does the mind arise out of?
Communication
Ability to view self as object of own thought
self
Stage where child can take the role of certain significant others.
Play Stage
Stage where child can take the perspective of several others & take into account rules of society
Game Stage
Sets of attitudes that an individual may take towards themselves.
Generalized other
Self that is unsocialized and spontaneous
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