Sociology 2259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: George Herbert Mead, Symbolic Interactionism, Baraminology
24 Nov 2017
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Social reaction to an individual will produce deviance. Labelling has to do with societal reaction to particular behaviour, and the subsequent reaction of the labelee to the label. Reactions are based on standpoint, values, morals, past experience, cultural settings, people involved. Labelling someone or some behaviour as deviant is a process involving interpretation, meaning and the attribution of deviance. How individuals imagine they appear to others. How they believe other judge their appearance. How they develop feelings of shame or pride based on these. George herbert mead: our social self is developed through the interaction between the i and the me . This is based on the notion that we are able to see ourselves as both subject and object. We can understand how the generalized other will view us and still be our own unique selves. To have a self, one must be a member of a community.
