SOCI 1003 Lecture Notes - Herbert Blumer, Symbolic Interactionism, Developmental Psychology
28 Jul 2014
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Socialization (soci): the process through which we learn to become members of a social group/society. Argued that it was really the very early years that produce our personalities (developmental psychology) and didn"t have much to say about ppl as adults. The family and relationships between family and the primary caregivers was central and formed the basis of our neurotic personalities. Id, ego, superego these ideas he developed later on in his writings. The id or it in latin is the un-socialized desires that remain at the level of subconscious. Our ego or consciousness is our self - it acts as a balancing between the id and the. The superego is the social norms, expectations that we internalize. American symbolic interactionist and philosopher - the self is a social creation. When we interpret a situation we are not simply reading the established meanings but also generation meaning too and deciding on subsequent action.
