Mead Flashcards
1
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Symb Inter approach challenges 2 dominant views of human behaviour
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- Psychological
- Social structural
2
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Thinking
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Series of internal conversations using sig symbols
3
Q
Mind
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Bio apparatus(CNS)+Thinking
4
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Self
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- Able to look at yourself as others would
- Becoming obj in own’s consciousness
- Product of experiential transactions,interactions & social r/ns
5
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Significant communication
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- Commun in which you can anticipate responses of others & modify your commun
- Need self for sig commun to occur
6
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Symbol
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- Not intrinsic nature of obj/event
- But how people perceive them
eg. Chair
7
Q
Significant symbol
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A gesture that elicits same response in all actors involved in communication
8
Q
Generalised other
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Organised attitudes of entire community
9
Q
Self development(how)
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Birth->learning lang+internalising generalised other->devt of self
10
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Generalised other(stages)
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Pre-play
Play
Game
11
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Self(2 phases)
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Me=socialised,reflective
I=spont,unsocialised & creative aspect
12
Q
Mead’s work
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Mind, Self and Society (1934)
13
Q
Awareness of I?
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Not aware;only retrieved from memory as ‘I’ response to ‘Me’ in a given situation
