SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - The Presentation Of Self In Everyday Life, Erving Goffman, Herbert Blumer
9 Mar 2013
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The theoretical ideas of mead: society and the individual. The whole (i. e. society) is prior to the part (i. e. The whole (i. e. society) is prior to the part (i. e. individual) In order to understand the individual we have to understand the whole: the act. The most basic element in his analysis. He identified four interrelated stages in what he called the act : both lower animals and human beings act, mead was interested in the similarities and differences in terms of how human beings and lower animals act. Consummation: the actor takes action that satisfies the initial stimulation. The mushroom will get eaten (however the human is far less likely to get sick b/c of them stopping and pausing to think about their action: the social act. The social act involves two or more actors. Gestures: the most basic element in the social act.
