SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Erving Goffman, Total Institution, George Herbert Mead
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The ways in which we learn to become parts of social groups and societies. Agents refer to the different groups, institutions, individuals through which we are socialized: we socialize through family, school (the education system), religions practices/ groups, peer group. We all have selves, but what is a self , what allows us to see ourselves: they are formed and shaped through socialization, and agents of socialization. Developed an interactive theory of self and social development. He saw that self wasn"t given at birth, but developed via interactions. The self is re exive, it has a capacity to re ect upon itself, re exivity of the self. This really means that the self can become an object of itself. There are two uses of the term consciousness : sensitivity and reactivity of the environment, the ability to the self conscious, being aware of one"s self as a person. Children don"t have this sense of self, they are un-self aware.
