COM 10200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: George Herbert Mead, Douglas Hofstadter, Oberlin College
7 Sep 2017
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Where does theory come from: people make up theories. Good theory criteria for interpretive theory: new understanding of people (individual cases, clarification of values, aesthetic appeal, community of agreement, reforms society, qualitative research. Interpersonal messages: what em griffin refers to as the bowling model of message delivery is the standard sender-receiver model: The ping-pong model introduces 2-way action but : there"s only one message at one time headed in one direction, ping-pong is a competition there"s a winner and a loser. The charades model: the game of charades captures interpersonal communication better since it is a cooperative game an ongoing process that can be described as a transaction. When dewey moved to the university of chicago, he wanted mead to join him there. Symbolic interactionism: language-the source of meaning, the development of the self is tied to language, douglas hofstadter: the words we used have default assumptions , the terror of a dog attack.
