SOCPSY 2M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: George Herbert Mead, Herbert Blumer, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 2M03
• Professor: Glen Steeves

Document Summary

The study of the ways in which people make sense of their life-situations and the ways in which they go about their activities in conjunction with others, on a day-to-day basis. To think, reason and coordinate actions with one another. Calls fourth the same meaning in the recipient. The study of the ways in which people make sense of their life-situations and the ways in which they go about their. Have the physical predisposition within our mind to communicate with one another. We are able to shape and change your environment and not simply respond to it. Humans act towards things based on the meaning those things have for them. The meaning of such things is derived from social interaction. Everything you know from the world comes from socialization. We base everything we know on the knowledge of other people. Inter - more social component to our subjectivities. Our meanings come from other people - we have learned socially.