CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman, Impression Management
3 Mar 2016
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Brief overview of the notion of the self in western thought. Account of key points from george herbert mead. Examination of the central ideas of erving goffman. Cognitive universe,a dynamic centre of awareness, emotion, judgement and action. An important part of our personal identity in the interplay of memories. The self is really a social event rather than a private thing; that the self only exists in relation to an. Other; and the relation with others is maintained in processes of human communication looking glass theory. Language serves as a mechanism for development of the self (from immature to adult) The self is smh which has a development; it is not initially there, at birth, but arises in the process of social experience and activity, that is, develops in the given individual as a result of his relations. Initially, we communicate a conversation of gestures. The conversation of gestures only becomes language when these gestures become signi cant symbols.
