Interactionism Flashcards
What idea did Peirce come up with?
Semiotics
What is involved in semiotics?
No direct relation between our thoughts and objects. Signs come between thoughts and objects
What kind of signs?
The names of things we get from language
Where do signs come from?
The social world
Peirce - What makes up our logic?
Connection of signs that are associated and linked together
What are semantics?
Overlapping meanings between words
What is syntax?
Lead on from what we ware thinking about - predetermined connections
What does Peirce mean by emotional thoughts?
Way we become convinced that we know how we feel about things. Thoughts fit together in a way that society has laid out for us
What does Cooley say?
When people relate to each other they do it in their imaginations
What would make someone socially real?
If they are imagined by someone else
If we only relate to each other in our imaginations…
then society is all in the mind
Mead - Reflexivity?
Thinking - we can imagine ourselves
How do we learn to think reflexively?
We learn from growing up in society and being social
Mead - How do people treat us in social interaction?
Objectively
Social relationships mean that we have..
Not one but many self concepts
