SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman, Shors
19 Dec 2020
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Charles horton cooley: american sociologist most famous for his concept looking-glass self . Suggests our self-concepts emerge from interaction and reflect our surroundings. Implication: we are not fixed, concrete beings; our very self-understandings depend on the social environment. Just as we see our physical body reflected in a mirror, so we see our social selves reflected in peoples gestures and reactions to us. Three step process of looking-glass self: actions/ reactions. 1) we imagine how we appear to people. 2) we judge how they evaluate us (try to get in their heads) based on their. 3) based on step (2), we develop a self-concept. Although we do make evaluations, which gives us some agency. Suggests we don"t have much control over who we think we are. Mead is most famous for his concepts i , me , and generalized other . Claims all people have two components to who they are. I: impulsive aspect of self, present at birth.
