MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: George Herbert Mead, Symbolic Interactionism, Scapegoating
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For living are shaped by the symbolic meaning they assign to objects, events, and social contexts. The character and conduct of peoples" social interactions. Seeks to explain how persons interact with one another in society by analyzing patterns of communication and behaviour in a particular social context. it is micro level perspective . Emphasized individuals act in accordance with interpretations of world subjective meanings of the world-and not how the world objectively exists. Agency- capacity of humans to act purposively and according own wills. Structure - any social feature or force that constrains or limits agency. A microsociological perspective to understand how media by erving goffman. Says our sense of self is not a stable entity but a performed character we. Stage. identity is product that emerges through social interaction. Impression management- the art of successfully staging a character, of enacting a performance that creating desired impression of idealized self that fits appropriately into the requirements of the context.
