SOCI 2060 Lecture 2: Lecture Two-Geroge Herbert Mead, The Foundations of Symbolic Interationism
27 Sep 2017
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George herbert mead and the foundations of symbolic interactionism: Social psychology: the study of the individual and the group. It was born out of two disciplines: psychology and sociology. Psychological social psychology: closest to traditional psychology. Individual as a closed system, responding to social stimuli : hallmark of this theoretical framework is the human mind. They focus on studying the human mind and how it transforms things in the environment that we can preserve through our sense: sounds, smell, touch into behavior. Input and outputs: the mind is a system of inputs and outputs: closed system: it requires things from the outside in order to do something. Example: your printer you have to tell it to print something and then it will print. The printer will not just start printing on its own: focused on how social cues influence thinking, perception and behavior.
