FMD 252 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: George Herbert Mead, Herbert Blumer, Erogenous Zone
22 Feb 2016
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Semiotics : study of how cultural meanings are produced and conveyed. Cues such as clothing and appearance are often used to simplify and make sense of social interactions. People strive for some consistency and continuity in their appearance perceptions. Humans seek and use aesthetic stimulation in their environments. Humans are motivated to explain social occurrences or outcomes in terms of people or situations why people act as they do; This perspective deals with appearance perception in the mind of the perceiver. The cognitive perspective deals with appearance perception only. This perspective deals with both appearance perception and appearance management. Humans create their own realities, in part, by managing their appearances. We act toward other people, in part, on the basis of the meanings their appearances hold for us. Meanings associated with appearance symbols emerge from social interactions with others. Meanings assigned to clothing and appearance are manipulated and modified through interpretive processes.
