COMM 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority, Intrapersonal Communication, Symbolic Interactionism
21 Jun 2018
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❏Symbolic Interaction Theory - (SIT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgMEKZFJaIQ&feature=em-upload_owner#a
ction=share
❏By George Herbert Mead in 1934
❏SIT is considered a intrapersonal communication theory
❏Goal (purpose) of (SIT)
❏To explain how humans through interaction create symbolic worlds and
how these worlds affect behavior
❏He believes its a social event - in order for meaning to be created their
needs to be interaction through people
❏Wants to explain how people in interaction with another create meaning
using symbols and how the meaning that’s created between them affects
their behavior
❏SIT’s concepts and explanations
❏Mind - the ability to use symbols that have common social meanings
(language or nonverbal symbols)
❏Idea that we cannot interact with others until we learn language
❏Mead defines language as the verbal and nonverbal symbols
organized into patterns to express thoughts and feelings
❏Language uses significant symbols - through language we can
share meanings, anticipate responses of others
❏Mind reflects and creates society - uses language to learn norms of
society
❏MOST IMPORTANT FOR MEAD - mind allows thought (inner
conversation)
❏Self - our ability to reflect on ourselves from the perspective of others
❏Think about what other people think of us in order to develop self
❏The looking glass self (By Cooley 1912)
❏When people look in the mirror and reflect upon
themselves they ask themselves what do others think of
me?
❏Pygmalion effect - a self fulling prophecy that others have for us
❏People tend to label us
❏Expectation others have of us that affect our behavior
❏Society - the web of social relationships that humans create
❏Exists prior to individuals born (but created by individuals
interacting)
❏Helps to create the individual “selfs”
❏Particular others - significant others to us
(parents/grandparents/friends) have the greatest effect on us
of who we become
❏The generalized others - society as a whole (where
everyone's place is in society)
Document Summary
Symbolic interaction theory - (sit) https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=ugmekzfjaiq&feature=em-upload_owner#a ction=share. Sit is considered a intrapersonal communication theory. To explain how humans through interaction create symbolic worlds and how these worlds affect behavior. He believes its a social event - in order for meaning to be created their needs to be interaction through people. Wants to explain how people in interaction with another create meaning using symbols and how the meaning that"s created between them affects their behavior. Mind - the ability to use symbols that have common social meanings (language or nonverbal symbols) Idea that we cannot interact with others until we learn language. Mead defines language as the verbal and nonverbal symbols organized into patterns to express thoughts and feelings. Language uses significant symbols - through language we can share meanings, anticipate responses of others. Mind reflects and creates society - uses language to learn norms of. Most important for mead - mind allows thought (inner society conversation)
