Lesson 2 Flashcards
Who said that the self and the mind are like social processes where gestures are taken in by the individual organism and so with the collective attitudes of others and react accordingly with other organized attitudes?
George Herbert Mead
“mind and the self are the products of the communication process.”
George Herbert Mead
“This is the capacity to become an object to one’s self, to be both subject and object”
George Herbert Mead
The “I” is the response of an individual to the attitudes of others, while the “me” is the organized set of attitudes of others which an individual assumes.
Self as reflexive process.
“It is by means of reflexiveness–the turning-back of the experience of the individual upon himself-that the whole social process is thus brought into the experience of the individuals involved in it”
Self as a social construction.
Who made looking glass self?
Charles Horton Cooley
A social psychological concept stating that a person’s self grows out of society’s interpersonal interactions and the perceptions of others.
Looking Glass Self
This means that our self-image is shaped by others, but only through the mediation of our own minds.
Looking Glass Self
During our everyday life, we spend most of our lives on the front stage, where we get to deliver our lines and perform. Sometimes we are allowed to retreat to the backstages of life.
Dramaturgical model of self
Who made Dramaturgical model of self?
Irving Goffman
We enact our roles in the company of others, who are in turn enacting their roles in interaction with us.
Dramaturgical model of self
Refer to our desire to manipulate others’ impressions of us on the front stage (the idealized self).
Impression Management
It is not just the study of how man and society evolved but profoundly interested in explaining and understanding the holistic aspects of man’s experiences that makes man human.
Anthropology
Used the concept of self (moi) but prefer the concept of persona (personne).
Marcel Mauss
“The concept of person is basically a cultural conception of a specific community while the concept of self was understood as a self-conscious agent that was constituted socially and psychologically.”
Marcel Mauss
