SOC 302 Lecture 3: DISCUSS3
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Reality : as our parents, siblings, friends, teachers, and little league coaches socialize us, we learn to think beyond the self to the other. According to mead, however, that brings us only halfway to being socialized. The final step is developing a concept of the generalized other, which represents an internalized sense of the total expectations of others in a variety of settings - regardless of whether we"ve encountered those people or places before. pg. 119: our entire livelihood, those surrounding us have always taught us to think of others, not just ourselves. But mead said that this idea only educates us (in a social sense) halfway, the other half is the concept of the generalized other. This is the idea of how we perceive how other people in general think of us. Together, those two ideas make-up our social self. I think that this idea is critical in beginning to understand.
