SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Verstehen, Interpersonal Communication, Erving Goffman
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Soc100 lecture #4 symbolic interactism theory 2 . Features: focuses on interpersonal communication in a micro level setting, social life is only possible because people attach meanings to things, people create social circumstances and do not merely react to them, sometimes validate unpopular viewpoints. Social institutions, etc: our understanding of reality: shared normal, perspectives, symbols: provide meaning, clothing is an example. Max weber: verstehen empathy with motives and meanings to understand peoples actions (you need to understand peoples motives and meanings) Mead: sense of self formed in the course of interaction with others. Present and future phase of self, active part. Represents the individuals identity based on response to the me . Represents learned behaviors, attitudes, expectation of others in society (also: generalized other) Considered a phase of the self that is in the past. Developed by the knowledge of society as well as social interactions. Our identities change overtime upon our interactions with other people.
