SOC 3410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Philadelphia Negro, Fisk University, Africana Studies

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3410
• Professor: Mervyn Horgan

Document Summary

Part of self that"s very unpredictable, creative and spontaneous, others don"t have access to it. The social self- me self as object. You don"t make the rules but you are subject to them. E. g. if someone asks a question someone answers (norms) Representing yourself through the way you are perceived in the world, always trying to modify ways we are presented. Element of life changing b/c the ways people are always seeing us/judging. All you are is how you appear in the world that"s all you are, how you appear (that"s real, that"s all the world has of you) The representation is the reality (only way we can engage w/ humans) You identify yourself through the external, that"s what everyone else sees. When with each other we influence each other, making it unfold according to how you react to what their doing (their action) and how they are reacting to you (your action)