SOC-1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: George Herbert Mead, Erik Erikson, Herbert Gintis
13 Oct 2018
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Charles cooley"s symbolic interactionism: we imagine how we appear to others, we imagine the reaction of others to our imagined appearance, we evaluate ourselves according to how we imagine others have judged us. The ability for role taking is the result of the two stage process of game stages. A child in its third or fourth year of age, begins to assume the status of individuals and acts out the behaviour associated with them. This imitation or play involves, acting and thinking, as a child imagines another person would. The second stage is the game stage which enables children to engage in much more refined role taking. In a game a child begins to consider the roles of several others at the same time. A child"s self concept, attitudes, beliefs, and values of one"s community and society are formed. The self is composed of two parts: me and i.
