CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Impression Management, George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 110
• Professor: Gary Mc Carron

Document Summary

Examination of central ideas from erving goffman. We recognize in others the existence of ourselves. We understand who we are as persons because we recognize who we are not. Idea that we are such separate unique beings, we shouldn"t be connected w other individuals. Other societies have more intimate family relationships. Western vs eastern society, individual vs group. The self: rational self desire & spirit. Imp. part of our personal identity = found in the interplay of memories, imaginations. Self social event rather than a private thing; self only exists in relation to an other; that the relation w others is maintained in processes of human communication. No such thing as a private self has to be realized in social activity. Language becomes the mechanism for the development of the self. At birth, there is no self we are born without a self, it develops over time.