Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Symbolic Interactionism, Sigmund Freud, Fraternities And Sororities

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 1020
• Professor: Agata Piekosz

Document Summary

Role: the behaviour expected of a person occupying a particular position in society. Self: consists of your ideas and attitudes about who you are. Symbolic interactionism is the idea that in the course of face-to-face communication, people engage in a creative process of attaching meaning to things. Self is a re ection of social conditions. Proposed the rst social-scienti c interpretation of the process by which the self emerges. Argued that only social interaction allows the self to emerge. We learn to control ourselves through the expectations of others. Our feelings about who we are depend largely on how we are judged by other people. I: the subjective and impulsive aspect of the self that is present from birth. Me: the objective component of the self that emerges as people communicate symbolically and learn to take the role of the other (both make up the self )