SOC 4369 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: George Herbert Mead, Symbolic Interactionism, Sigmund Freud
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Distinctive interactions they can have with other humans. Genie the wild child, acting like animals. Not human until you interact with other humans, critical time. Nature - born to be the way we are supposed to be. Nurture - we are human beings because of the environment/external factors: more important than nature in determining how we are. Charles horton cooley - parents help children develop the ability to interact with others: the looking glass self - the self image that reflects how others respond to a person, particularly as a child. As humans we develop a self image of how other people respond to us. If ferals are in isolation, they do not develop a self-image/self awareness/a sense of yourself. George herbert mead - concerned with micro level, individual mind set: social interaction priority, thinking is no more than internalized speaking/language. Humans vs non humans - both can make gestures, illicit an automatic response from an individual.
