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
What determines the amount of self we communicate?
The social experience?
What determines the meaning of a gesture?
The response it gets
What happens when you make a gesture?
other person thinks about where it is leading/what you intend by it and responds to that
What lies behind gestures?
The context - has to be universal
Mead- What is the generalised other?
The attitude of everyone
Mead - What is ‘I’
His action over against that social situation within his own conduct
How do you find out who you are?
By meeting expectations of the generalised other or by failing to mer t expectations
Blumer - Where does meaning come from?
Meaning doesn’t get brought into the interaction, it gets created there
Blumer - What does symbolic interactionism mean?
Things that mean something, stuff that has to be interpreted
