Sociology Flashcards
The scientific study of human social relations or group life.
Sociology
The study of human interactions in the relationships that occur within the group and results of these interactions.
Sociology
When and where is George Herbert Mead born?
Born February 1863 in Massachusetts, USA
What year did George enrolled at Harvard University with philosophy and psychology as his main interests?
1887
When and how did George Herbert Mead die?
Died of heart failure in 1931
He formulated Social Behaviorism
George Herbert Mead
Describe the self as a dimension of personality that is made up of the individual self awareness and self image.
Social Behaviorism
States that self cannot be separated from the society as the environment has the power in shaping human behavior.
Social Behaviorism
What are the three stages of cell formation?
Preparatory Stage
Play Stage
Game Stage
Children imitate the behaviors of people around them.
Preparatory stage
Children start to know and understand symbols.
Preparatory stage
Children begin to role play and pretend to be other people.
Play stage
Process of mentally assuming the perspective of another and see how the person respond in a given situation.
Role-taking
8 to 9 years of age where the child begins to consider several tasks and various types of relationship simultaneously.
Game stage
Behavior of the person when he sees or considers other people in the course of his actions and the person realizes that people in society have cultural norms, beliefs, and values which are incorporated into each self.
Generalized other
Mead’s theory of self states that?
The self is not present at birth but begins as a central character in a child’s world where children see themselves as the center of their universe.
The family who play a major role in the formation of the self.
Significant others
What are the two types of self?
I self
Me self
It represents the individual’s identity based on the response in his own experience. When the person initiates or performs social action, the self functions as the subject.
ex. I will cook dinner
I self
It represents learned behaviors, attitudes, and expectations of others. When the person takes the role of the other, the self functions as the object.
ex. They chose me as the President
Me self
An american sociologist that made use of the sociopsychological approach to understand how societies work.
Charles Horton Cooley
States that people learn who they are through their social interaction with people and our view of ourselves comes from contemplation of personal qualities and by the impression and perception of others.
Charles Horton Cooley
The self that is a product of social interaction.
Looking-glass self
What are the three phases of developing a self?
- People imagine how they present themselves to others.
- People imagine how others evaluate them.
- People develop some sort of feeling about themselves as a result of those impressions.
