SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Symbolic Interactionism, Impression Management, Erving Goffman
29 Nov 2016
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His ideas form the basis of symbolic interactionism. Emphasis the interaction between people- it takes place through symbols and the interpretation of mean. Mead"s work also gives an account of the main phases of child development, particularly the emergence of the sense of self. Infants and children develop as social beings-imitate those around them. Look at the way that children play-they do what adults do. Mead called this, taking the role of the other . We become the social self: by learning to distinguish the me separate agents from the i . The i is the socialized infant, full of wants and desires. The me is the social self- this emerges when infants and children develop self-consciousness. Routines by which individual actions are channeled by historical expectations (226) Use symbols to produce a sense of belonging and solidarity amongst members of the group. They are mechanisms that hold society together.
