SOSA 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: George Herbert Mead, Sigmund Freud, High Culture
26 Sep 2018
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A set of ideas or attributes about who one is an an independent being: the self emerges naturally but without social interactions (hence it may not natural) Sigmund freud: socialization begins soon after birth, social interaction enables infants to begin developing their sense of self. Charles horton cooley: we start to see our social self re ected in the way people see us (like looking in the mirror and seeing your re ection, we get a sense of who we are through social interactions. I - the subjective and impulsive aspect of the self that is present from birth. Me - the objective component of self that emerges as people communicate and learn to take roles of others. Imitating signi cant others: pretending to be others (age of make belief, simultaneously taking the role of several others eg: baseball (around age 7, taking the role of the generalized other.
