SOCI 2610H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: George Herbert Mead, Herbert Blumer, Symbolic Interactionism
26 Sep 2018
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Symbolic interactionism: symbolic interactionist perspective, social interaction society, symbols and representations, written, oral, visual, context dependent. Verstehen = to understand: applied to the study of social interaction, rejection of positivist thinking (subjective, individuals create the world and give things meaning. Other interactionist theorists: george herbert mead (1863-1931, charles horton cooley (1864-1929, herbert blumer (1900-1987) Looking-glass self: our understanding and experience of ourselves is often a response to the evaluations of others, social self. Looking-glass 3 elements: imagine how the other person sees us, imagine judgement, imagine our own reaction to that. Others: significant others matter more to us and we value their opinion, generalized people we still care about what they think. Label deviance social control: different groups will label an act or person as deviant, deviant act occurs, social control, social typing process. Primary deviance: common place (everyone does it, harmless initial acts, those not caught go on to conventional lifestyles.
