HLTHAGE 2BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: George Herbert Mead, Symbolic Interactionism, Herbert Blumer
16 Mar 2017
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Si is based on understanding and how reality is socially constructed and the meanings we attach to reality. Objects don"t have meanings in and of themselves, but people attach meanings to them. The early scholars who pioneered si learnt travelled to germany to learn from max weber. Philosophically, we have a set of assumptions attached to si. Early si theorists were from the chicago school of si. The most influential theorists were george herbert mead and herbert blumer. I is the impulsive reactions that we have - an unpredictable reaction, like when your hand touches a hot stove. In school they take on more roles - teacher, coach, peers etc. When they become more mature they assimilate more roles, like from their community - impression management. You learn the normal and abnormal ways to behave. Social interaction: all the ways we interact in different social settings, theory of the social self.
