SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Erving Goffman, Symbolic Interactionism, Oberlin College
20 Feb 2016
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The emergence and development of symbolic interactionist theory. Decline of the chicago school after the 1930"s. Chicago school in the 50"s herbert blumer was a student of. He also gave us the term symbolic interactionism in 1937 to describe mead"s work. Erving goffman wrote the book presentation of self in everyday life in 1959. The continuing impact of symbolic interactionist theory mead and goffman. The looking glass self imagine how we appear to other and also imagine what their judgment of our appearance must be. This is how we develop a sense of self, and positive or negative self- feeling as a result of imagining the judgment of others. Imagining how our looks, personality, intelligence etc. appear to others e. g. intelligence we imagine to appear smart to others, then we imagine people like us since they value our intelligent ideas and insights. Subjective vs. objective reality primary groups small intimate groups that link individuals to the larger society.
