SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture : Lecture 36 - February 27th.docx

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 2S06
• Professor: David Young

Document Summary

2) non significant gestures: non significant gestures involve unconscious actions, either animal actors or human actors will engage in a conversation of gestures, actors (either animal or human) can engage in what mead called a conversation of gestures other animals boxing match. 2) the self and role taking: the general mechanism for the development of the self is the human ability to take the role of the other, through social experience, human beings acquire the ability to consciously or unconsciously put themselves in the place of others, consequently, people can switch from a subjective point of view and become objects to themselves. B) the play stage: children start to develop the ability to take the role of particular others toward themselves, the ability to take the role of other emerges through play, mead makes a comparison between animals and humans baby animals play, children play at being someone else.