SOCI 2040 Lecture Notes - George Herbert Mead, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Self-Control
3 Dec 2013
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If a lion could talk, we could not understand him ludwig wittgenstein. Meaning: the language thats evolved is rooted in a social reality & way of life . Language"s ambiguity comes from our different social realities . What separates humans from animals: mead recognized animals as fully social beings like humans. Mead argued that the fact that we use symbols in our communication (unlike animals). Symbols are the basis for language the word stands in for something else. Psychological behaviourism: assumes individuals are passive and nonreflective, no different from animals . Social behaviourism: investigates a conversation of significant gestures in which use of symbols indicates a development of the human mind . Stimulus & response (psychological behaviourism) : show a dog a bone, it salivates, mead belived that humans also experience stimulus and response, but in a more complicated way. He believed that stimulus are symbols thrown at you to which you can choose your response.
