SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Erving Goffman, Henri Tajfel, Impression Management
6 Feb 2015
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*** focus readings on: agents of childhood socialization, processes of socialization, Instrumental conditioning, observational learning, internalization, results of socialization, language and oral development *** Our thoughts about who we are, and our perceptions of our social identities and. Self-awareness ability to recognize our self as spate from our environment and other individuals. You need to have this before the other processes. Mirror test babies don"t recognize they are in the mirror, they think it"s just part of their environment, kind of like a window. Red dot test in mirror on animals. Our understanding of the self" is drawn from symbolic interaction theory. The self is the individual viewed as both the source and the object of reflexive. The self is both active (the source that initiates reflexive behavior) and passive (the object toward whom reflexive behavior is directed). The active aspect of the self is labeled the i. The object of self-action is labeled the me.
