SY101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: George Herbert Mead, Boogie 2Nite, Determinism
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Nature: people"s fates, likes, dislikes, and behavior dictated by inborn characteristics genetic. Nurture: people"s fates, likes, dislikes, and behavior is dictated/the product of impact of culture, historical period, family, and friend groups. Biological determinism: the belief much of our behavior reflects in-built biological traits such as the need to reproduce, survive, and so on. At birth we don"t know who or what we are. Socialization: the process by which we learn the ways of society (or particular groups) Socialization: influences not only how we express our emotions, but what emotions we feel. Symbolic interactionalist theorist concluded that self/humanness is socially created in an ongoing lifelong process (not necessarily accurate evaluations: we imagine how we appear to those around us, we interpret other"s reactions, we develop a self-concept. George herbert mead: philosophy professor, university of chicago. He never wrote anything down, but when he died, his student put together his writing and journals.
