SOCY 273 Study Guide - Final Guide: Wassily Kandinsky, Symbolic Interactionism, Neoliberalism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 273
• Professor: Robyn Sattlink

Document Summary

Self: referring to any aspect of who or what the individual is or is considered to be. Identity: refers to anything that can be considered as a. Representation" of self such as talk or thoughts about who one is. Idea that you have a core self, an identity within you. Dennett web of narratives creates sense of self. We talk as though there is a separate self inside of us, but it doesn"t mean that we have a separate self inside of us. We construct our sense of self through narrative (talk) or representations of self. Cooley looking glass self: we see ourselves, how people see us and treat us. Idea that others impact the way we feel towards our self. Symbolic interactionism: a collection of approaches particularly concerned with the ways in which a sense of self is socially based, being dependent in various ways on the perceptions made by others and interactions with them.