SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nerd
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Our sense of who we are as individuals (and our interactions with others, and how we interect) The source and object of re exive behaviour the actions of one individual and the individual toward whom the actions are intended are the same". Self motivation: you are acting on and towards ones self. Mead"s i" and me" 1934 paper was published. Both the i and the me make up the self. Me" is the socialized self (the passive self) our learned behaviour, attitudes, expectations etc. I" is the impulse (the self that is active and captive) the present the future, the action, the active, responds to the me" the socialized self. The process of imaginatively occupying the position of another person and viewing the self and the situation from the person"s perspective". Another important step in the development of self learn to respond re exively in a role of the self.