SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Symbolic Interactionism, George Herbert Mead, Firefighter
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Learning how to become a member of society. Bundles of rules: get models for how we should act. Learning the culture of the society and groups in which you belong. Becoming selves - building our own identity. We do not automatically become who we are; we need to interact with others. We were social before we were human. Highlights the way we use social groups and social interaction to form ourselves. We would not have a self or a mind without society. We learn how to understand ourselves through interaction with others. A claim that we don"t have individuality. We learn how to think and how to think about ourselves, through interaction with others (socialization). Focus on the role of meaning and how it is learned and produces through interaction. Humans can use significant symbols/ humans can think. Call out the same response in ourselves as they call out in others.
