SOCIOL 167 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman, Impression Management
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Acquired and realized only through social relationships. The self is important for regulating behavior. Overcome impulses partly because of the process of the self. The self is both a subject and an object to itself. The self acts, the self behaves (source of action) An object is something to reflect upon, to evaluate. Think about myself at night - the process continues even without social interaction. Theorized that the self emerges from our ability to assume the point of view of others and imagine how they see us: looking-glass self. We imagine how we appear to another person. We imagine others" judgement of that appearance. We experience a self-feeling based on our imagination of others" judgement. The self cannot see or feel itself without the presence of others serving as a mirror. There is no me without a corresponding you . Doing the thing/i want to do this. Me -- self as object (reflect, we act then think about it)
