SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Erving Goffman, Adam Sandler, Character Actor
8 May 2016
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All social experiences involves interaction between the i and the. The me takes the role of the generalized other. Imagine that a professor is giving a lecture and the lecture is entirely boring. And at the end of the lecture the professor says this was a very interesting lecture, and you feel tempted to yell out that it was incredibly boring (that is the i trying to initiate an action). But you don"t say anything and sit there quietly (that is the me . ) Because the i has been regulated and controlled by the social me . Other students, other people at the university, other people in the society would see this behavior as rude/disrespectful. You internalized the social norm (consider the generalized other), so the me regulated the i /action: the theoretical ideas of mead, society. Society is the ongoing social process that precedes both mind and self.
