CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Symbolic Interactionism, Impression Management, Erving Goffman
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Consciousness and society- communication and theories of the. There is no single brain structure that embodies the self . A series of brain mappings that allow us to function as one self. We are made up of trillions of entities. A person"s essential being that distinguishes them from others. Does the self develop through a process of social exposure and education (mead)? or. Charles h. cooley, human nature and the social order (1902) We react accordingly (pride, happiness, guilt, or shame) The individual mind can exist only in relation to others minds with shared meanings. Mind is a creation out of the social acts of communication. Mind is constantly importing society into your biological senses. Initially, we communicate through a conversion of gestures the conversation of gestures only becomes language when these gestures become signi cant symbols. A gesture is called signi cant once the individual can interpret the meaning of her own gestures.