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    Symbolic Interactionism: Approaches To Meaning: The Work of George Herbert Mead

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    SYMBOLIC

    INTERACTIONISM
    Approaches to Meaning:
    The work of George Herbert
    Mead

    CORE PRINCIPLES
    MEANING
    LANGUAGE
    THOUGHT

    MEANING
    Humans act toward people or things on
    the basis of the meanings they assign
    to those people or things.
    Once people define a situation as real,
    it is very real in its consequences
    Meaning-making is a community project

    LANGUAGE, SOURCE OF
    MEANING
    Meaning:
    arises out of social interaction
    not inherent in objects
    negotiated through language by naming,,
    ascribing meaning to words
    Knowing depends on symbolic naming
    A symbol is a stimulus that has a learned
    meaning; our words have default
    assumptions

    THOUGHT
    Interpretation of symbols is modified
    by thought
    Thinking is inner conversation
    Humans are thoughtful
    Symbols stimulate thought
    Humans can take the role of the
    other

    THE SELF
    Defined through interconnection of
    meaning, language and thought
    Involves taking the role of the other:
    looking-glass self
    Function of language
    Community membership filters
    consciousness of self
    Always in flux
    Combines impuslive I and reflective me

    COMMUNITY
    Sense of self based on community
    expectations and responses: the
    generalized other or me
    This shapes how we think and
    interact
    The me is formed through continual
    symbolic interaction
    The me is the organized community
    within the individual

    Applications
    Social interaction as dramaturgical
    performance
    Performances are fragile
    Ethnography as appropriate method
    A negative generalized other can reduce
    a person to nothing
    Name-calling can force us to view
    ourselves through a warped mirror
    Self-fulfilling prophecy: our expectations
    evoke responses that confirm what we
    originally anticipated.

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