SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Symbolic Interactionism

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Thomas E Macias

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Often motivated by a desire to learn spanish. Experience is often colored by the ability to speak spanish. These experiences happen on either side of the border. Makes it difficult to romanticize immigration and the ethinc past. Symbolic interaction: face to face interaction. There can be no self apart from social integration. Symbolic interaction requires that we imagine how others perceive us (reflexivity: developmental process, understanding who you are through your interaction with other people. The self emerges from this process and requires a social language. La(cid:374)guage allows us to (cid:271)e (cid:271)oth su(cid:271)je(cid:272)t (cid:894)(cid:862)i(cid:863)(cid:895) a(cid:374)d o(cid:271)je(cid:272)t (cid:894)(cid:862)(cid:373)e(cid:863)(cid:895) Language allows us to have internal conversations, to think. Maturity= a socially grounded ability to engage in the world with others. Imitating others with gestures and symbols: children try taking the role of another, often as a significant other, parallel play. Individually carried out: play, game, they learn rules and inter-dependence with others, agree on commonest of rules, ex.