ANTHROP 1AB3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Sign Language, Cognitive Style, George Herbert Mead
26 Jul 2013
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Formation of the person throughout the ages in the context of social status, geography and culture. There are variations to the trajectory where identity formulates outside of cultural normal. Instinctive relationships and behaviours between parents and infant/child. George herbert mead: self as product of interaction. We cannot develop normally without others, we are social beings in a very profound sense. The self is a social product developed through encounters with others. Self is divided into two parts: i", represents the spontaneous, unique, and natural traits of the self, me , represents the social part of the self, the internalized demands of society and the individual"s awareness of these demands. Different phases to become ourselves: becoming self-conscious through speech, taking the role of the other; through play and in games, the i and the me connected in dialogue. The self takes on the role of one other person in one situation: prepatory stage:
