SOC 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: George Herbert Mead, Symbolic Interactionism, Behaviorism
19 Feb 2017
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Chapter 7
Thinking About Sociology
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-Social Interactionist Perspective
-we have already seen 3/4 core sociology concepts
-sociological imagination
-social construction of reality
-science as a way of knowing about the world
-now we are going to look at the fourth
-1st half of 20th cent focus was switched to large-scale societal processes
-social interaction emerged - the process by which individuals act, interact, and
react to one another in the context of social relations
-Mead coined the term symbolic interactionism as a name for the study of small
scale interactionism
-interactionists focus on:
-how society is produced by individual actors
-how individual actors are shaped by society
-individual and society are seen as different aspects of the same thing
-faced with the problem of explaining how social order and structure come
about and persist
-George Herbert Mead (1863-1931)
-brought pragmatism to his study of sociology and philosophy
-a school of thought that views the world as dynamic and emergent, brother
into being by a variety of social groups that create their own way of talking,
acting, thinking, and definition of real
-one of the first to clearly and extensively theorize social interaction
-his work is considered a key source of conveying the working ideas of social
interaction
-published little
-stands as one of the founders of sociology (although he believed himself to be
lesser)
-mead accepted the basic principal of behaviourism swell - that all behaviours
are learned
-had a colleague names Charles Horton Cooley and from him he adopted the
following ideas:
-the looking glass self which is a metaphor for the sense of self we develop
as a result of our propensity to imagine how we appear to others and how
we imagine they judge us
-the self as emergent - the process in which children recognize themselves
and eventually develop personality
-consciousness - believed to be separated into 3 groups - awareness of
ones self (self consciousness) , awareness of the attitudes of others (social
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