SOCY 273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: George Herbert Mead, Herbert Blumer, Impression Management
5 Apr 2017
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The different ways that sociologists study the meaning of the concepts of self. Sociologists study the self, self concept and identities (not personality) The self is a process in which we construct a sense of who we are through interaction with others. The self process at a given point in time is the self concept. A snap shot of my self at this time. Self identity: the kind of person we see ourselves as. Self evaluations: the judgements we make of ourselves. We use symbols and language to communicate with other people, but we also use language to think internally, a process herbert blumer calls self-indication. According to george herbert mead, a large part of our internal dialogue occurs as interplay between the me, the organized set of attitudes toward the self, and the i, our active self. Me - organized set of attitudes towards the self based on the views of others.
