SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Erving Goffman, Rosenhan Experiment, Impression Management
10 Mar 2016
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Self concept/self-schema: our thoughts about who we are, and our perceptions of our social identities and personal qualities. Early development of self-awareness: mirror test. 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 behaviour: the self is both active (the source that initiates reflexive behaviour) and passive (the object toward whom reflexive beaviour is directed) According to george h. mead: the active aspect of the self is labeled the i, the object of self-action is labeled the me. Charles horton cooley: the looking glass self (1902) People shape themselves based on what other people perceive, and confirm other people"s opinion of themselves. I am, who i think you think, that i am . Three components: we imagine how we must appear to others, we imagine the judgment of that appearance, we develop our self through the judgments of others.
