SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Research Question, Impression Management, Mirror Test
23 Apr 2016
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Social origins of self including the stages. Self concept/self-schema: our thoughts about who we are, and our perceptions of our social identities and personal quantities. 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 re exive behaviour. The self is both active (the source that initiates re exive behaviour) and passive (the object toward whom re exive behaviour is directed) The active aspect of the self is labeled the i and 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 con rm 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 judgement of that appearance, we develop our self through the judgements of others.
