SOCIOL 2D06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: George Herbert Mead, Symbolic Interactionism, Impression Management
6 Apr 2016
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Theories on self and idenity part i. Mead conceptualized the mind and the self as arising within a social context via language. According to mead, individuals are born into a society learn pre-exising social roles thru socializaion. Role of rewards, sancions, and interacion with others, such as the generalized other . George herbert mead: stages in developing in a self-relexive self. Play stage certain roles such as child or parents are known but there is not centralized standpoint from which to view oneself. Do not have capacity to be self-relecive. Game stage where individuals, from a unitary standpoint, can take the role of all others and also see themselves as an object or as others see them. As stryker has observed, the self develops through this social process of role-taking and exists in viewing oenself relexively by adoping the standpoint of others to atach meanings to the self .
