SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mirror Test, Erving Goffman, Impression Management
5 Nov 2016
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Self-concept/self-schema: our thoughts about who we are, and our perceptions of our social identities and personal qualities. Early development of self-awareness: mirror test. Our understanding of the self" is drawn from symbolic interaction. The self is the individual viewed as both the source and the object of reflexive behaviour: the self is both active (the source that initiates reflective behaviour) and passive (the object toward whom reflective behaviour is directed) The active aspect of the self is labeled the i. The object of self-action is labeled the me. Charles horton cooley: the looking glass self (1902) People shape themselves based on what other people perceive, and confirm other people"s opinions of themselves: i am, who i think you think, that i am . Three components: we imagine how we must appear to others, we imagine the judgment of that appearance, we develop our self through the judgments of others.
