SOC313H1 Lecture Notes - George Herbert Mead, Informal Social Control, Social Disorganization Theory
Document Summary
History of the concept of social control and theories. Origins of the concept coined by herbert spencer, a social philosopher. Popularized and developed by edward ross in 1901, who used it in the earlier form which was a general reflection on everything that keeps society together. Predated by long standing concerns with order. The chicago school first people to really start talking about social control. Based in chicago in the 1890s to 1920s. When it came to social control two things came out of the chicago school. George herbert mead says that we develop a sense of ourselves early on as children learn to role play and in learning to do this they can learn to stand outside of themselves; a self-reflexive process. He differentiated the i and the me , the i being the subject or the actor, and the me is the object.
