SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Henri Tajfel, Comparator, Impression Management
19 Apr 2016
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The self: self concept / self schema: our thoughts about who we are and our perceptions of out social identities and personal qualities. Early development of self-awareness: mirror test: an attempt to determine whether a non- human animal possesses the ability of self-recognition. Understanding of the self is drawn from symbolic interaction theory: the self is the individual viewed as both the source and the object of re exive behaviour. The self is both active (the source initiates re exive behaviours) and passive (the object toward whom re exive behaviour is directed) George g. mead: the active aspect of the self is labeled the i. Children only take on one role at a time. everyone else in a game. A conception of the attitudes and expectations held in common by the members of the. When we imagine what the group expects of us, we are taking the role of the generalized other.
