ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - George Herbert Mead, Participant Observation
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The chicago school the chicago school are the theories of the scholars at the university of chicago theories based on how physical environment and social structures determine individual behaviour (ex. Charles cooley studied the relationship between the individual and society, believing the two are interconnected and can"t be separated the individual can shape society just as much as society can shape the individual. George herbert mead extended on the looking-glass self theory. Mead who was cooley"s colleague and believed that the individual assumes a variety of different social roles and learns early on which mask to where. Of all the theories which came from the chicago school, the looking glass self is the best one, as it represents the important influence of the individual on overt social behaviour. Because of his work, mead became known as the founder of symbolic interactionalism.