Sociology 2259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: George Herbert Mead, Jane Elliot, A Class Divided
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Social reacion to an individual will produce deviance . Labelling has to do with societal reacion to paricular behavior, & the subsequent reacion of the labelee to the label. Labelling someone or some behavior as deviant is a process involving: interpretaion; meaning & the atribuion of. How they develop feelings of shame or pride based on these. George herbert mead: our social self is developed through the interacion between the i and the me . This is based on the noion that we are able to see ourselves as both subject and object. When we initiate social acion the self operates as a subject ( i ) When we take the role of the other the self operates as an object ( me ) George herbert mead: 4 stages of socializaion: inimidaion, pretend, game, the generalized other. A community cannot deal with people it cannot deine.