Symbolic Interactionism
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Role playing and role taking – do we empathize with the person we are seeing.
You might say something and contradict youre self later on not because you are lying
Labeling socialization is in process and it depends how do we interpret the situation and we need to put our serlfs in to the other position. We should not look at the situation from the outsiders point of view because of imitation of natural sciences. It is hard because ppl hide their inner motions and they didnt have proper ways to conduct the researches(methods) and applying few methods on everything. This days methods need to apply to certain topics or whatever the topic is.
First influence:
Philosophical roots
Rationalist
– everything needs to be conceived in human mind (Decart)
Empiricist – Experiences through knowledge is trough concepts, you just need to re-wake the soul to get the knowledge. When I look in to the intimate self I dont find the si Hume assumes that emotions have no agencies. (Skinner – autonomous man ) discredited the concept of self and other succsseded to restore the concept of the self. Faliure to imitate the natural sciences model resurrected the concept of self. There is no universal definition of the self, we talk about it and it has different concepts:
Ruth Wylie – concept of self: Self as a
object – self as object
The self as agent – humans are not just objects, it is not subjective to influences( free will partial ) where is choice there is will. It is not pre determined by others.
PRESENT ON CHICAGO SCHOOL
Future shock movie
2nd influence –
Pareto, Dilthey, Weber – Paretos triangle Theory(derivations) – ACT (behavior)—- State of mind; residues – is most biger motivators, state of mind cannot be ignored and its very important.(at the cultural level, at the group level).
Dilthey – Methodology should be different from two sciences.
Weber – “Verstehen” empathetic understanding – we need to put our self in others place in order to research.
3rd Influence European roots
18th century German Idealism – human beings construct their world, realities.(partial free will) not determined by external factors.
Scottish philosopher – concept of empathy rather than sympathy
Conception of mind and self are social products, there is nothing of being there before the birth, only biological potentiality. Tabularasa ,,,,, Its the society is that socializing the individual. TV as instrument of socialization.
Darwins theory of evolution – behavior is adaptation to the environment, individual and the environment fit together in dialectical relationship, they influence each other. Individual can influence society or environment e.g Immigrants.
4th influence – American Antecents
Functual psychology – thought is
Life as active not as reactive. Individuals do not respond to envireo rather they are selective to the stimuli. Stimuli - interpretation process(how you define the situation is the most important factor)— response
School of pragmatism –
Early symbolic interationists – Baldwin, William James Coley, Dewey, Thomas, Mead.
Perceptual pattering – External factors
2nd lecture
Proposition for S.I:
The meaning component in the human contact
Instinctively human interaction are carried trough medium of symbols and meaning. It contributes to uniqueness of human interaction, humans construct their meanings. Concept of reflectivnes. Meanings are assign to stimuli and humans react to those meanings.
Three premises of bloomer:
Human beings respond to objects , its how they define the situation and they respond accordingly. There is interpretation process.
This meanings are derived from our groups from society, from interaction with other ppl, objects are not god given or absolute,