SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pierre Bourdieu, Erving Goffman
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Social psychology: relationship between individual and social context. Formation of the self beings in childhood and continues in adolescence. Freud - only social interaction allows the self to emerge. Cooley - looking-glass self(applies to very young children) Mead - i (individual impulses, self as subject) and me (generalized other, self as object) Goffman - multiple selves (people act in different ways when placed in different social roles) Pierre bourdieu(name to remember) - habitus: people, through their environments, develop their sense of self unknowingly. Not just the consequences of our individual history (i. e. outcomes), but they are also generative(i. e. causes) Habit vs. habitus: habitus(disposition) is generative, habit is not. Impacts what we see, decisions we make, our tastes, what is right and wrong (both cause and an effect) Habitus impacts behaviour on a subconscious level. Peer groups help children separate from their families and allow them to develop unique identities.
