Sociology 2259 Lecture : Interaction and Labelling Theories
7 Dec 2012
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Imitation when children learn to use language and other symbols by imitating the significant others: pretend when children pretend to be other people. Like playing house. (based on what you see in your life, based on social experiences: game (by about age 7) mead liked to use baseball as an analogy. You have to understand the role of the other. What your job is but what the other roles are in order to play the game: the generalized other - when a child is able to understand the generalized other. Understanding your self in terms of your culture, bigger society, and how they apply to you. A community cannot deal with people it cannot define. People like to put people into categorizes. Labelling creates kinds of people which we then expect to behave in the manner imputed to them. He argued most young people take part in some kind of misconduct.
