SOC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Impression Management, Handsfree
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Takes time for norms to be created. cell phone in funeral. e. g. handsfree tech for cell phone in car (nonmat. culture trying to catch up) Socialization: is learned, and lifelong, skills, perceptions, agents of socialization: acquisition of self : Theory 1 : looking glass self: sense of self created through social interaction , charles p. cooley. (mirror). Looking-glass self: self derived from perception of others. Creation of self-concept is a process : self -> fluid: imagine how you appear to others, judgement, form some form of judgment with how you think others think of you, evaluation u evaluate that interpretation/judgement. Theory 2: role taking (by george mead): sense of self consisted of i and me. [i] present at birth , develops first, typically irrational, acting self. doesn"t matter how old u are, i still lashes out. Theory 3: goffman"s presentation of self : sense of self depends on social context, interaction dependent upon particular setting. dramaturgy: impression management.
