SOC 308C Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Symbolic Interactionism
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Summary: symbolic interactionism is what is going on in our heads, what we behave on, what we believe in, and what meanings we have gotten from interactions from others and society. The imperial, intrinsic self" comes from how others perceive us and grows out of interactions with others. I" is self-feeling and is bound up in the feelings of others (we can"t understand our own self without interactions with others) Looking glass = self-concepts are formed from reflected images that come from social relations. The result is a change in our behavior based on how we think others perceive us. Critique not necessarily all of our interactions changes us: ex/ a meaningful teacher will change us more than a passing insult. We are not being influenced by the opinions of others. Being influenced by what we imagine the opinion of other people to.
