CRM/LAW C107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: George Herbert Mead, Randall Collins, Erving Goffman
22 Jan 2017
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Symbolic interaction theories focus on the interpretation (social meaning) that is given to behaviour, and on the way such interpretation helps to construct the social world, the identities of people, and, ultimately how they behave. All interaction theories are concerned with the way in which meaning is constructed. Identity consists of three elements: 1. How actors belief others judge their appearance: 3. How actors develop feelings of shame or pride, feelings that become an inner guide to behaviour. The social self was the cause of social behaviour. Randall collins: goffman contributed the most to intellectual progress in u. s. sociology. Best known works: presentation of self in everyday life (1959, asylums (1961, stigma (1963, interaction ritual (1967, gender advertisements (1976) The script that people follow to control how others see them. Abominations of the body: physical disfigurement, readily apparent, known at first glance: body related; body shaming, the extent to which somebody can pass as not being of some category.
