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OUR SOCIAL SELVES - Coggle Diagram
OUR SOCIAL SELVES
GESTURES
understanding eachother/ king yourself understandable
main form: talking
"bodily actions of an organism which invoke a reaction in other organisms"
talking is a form
involves symbols
significant symbols
call out a mental image
aroused in both the producer and the reciever
communicate about the matters that transcend the here and now
future/past
others
divine beings/ ideal world
they don't have to be in person anymore
Elias:
symbol emancipation
humans are able to adapt their environment to their needs
special symbols help adjust the world to people's needs
are the basis for
categories of understandings
Scheff -- SHAME AND SELF IN SOCIETY
common meaning of shame: the sense of very intense arousel when being looked at (when you don't want to be looked at)
when a person looses the social bond with others
intersubjectivity is broken
increased self-awareness
people are always on the look-out for signs that tere's a different understanding
we see ourselves as objects (through the eyes of others)
Cooley -- The looking glass self
shame= when we see ourselves negatively through the eyes of others + master emotion
civilising processes work through shame
triple shame process/spiral
two forms of shame
overt, undifferentiated
bypassed
BEHAVIOURISM
Can we study consciousness?
Mead's
social behaviourism
:
consciousness is behaviour, a social process
mental processes are social processes --» they can't be separated
thinking = taking the role of particular + generalised others
THE
LIFE-WORLD
What happens in the life world?
"
being wide awake
" = our consciousness + experience is specific/focused on the interaction
commit to a social interaction --» try to meet the requirements
people want to get something out of the interaction
consciousness, the experience from being emerges from a social interaction
the experience of social everyday life
situation of
intersubjectivity
in which social action takes place
adjustment in the life-world
mutual
I know that you know the meaning of this particular situation
we all assume we have the same meaning
this is the
intersubjective moment
intersubjective knowledge
never a 100% sure we understand eachother
tension of social consciousness
SOCIOLOGY AS A SOCIAL EXPERIENCE
Phenomenology:
how people give meaning/experience the world around them
Shütz
investigates the experience of everyday social life
most of the time people just follow
social order
the experience of being as a process
being here = being in a social interaction
how we make sense of the social world is
relational
: we oeiwnt towards what others are doing
intentional:
engaging in the line of action in the environment