Interactionism
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- Created on: 24-11-20 19:11
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- Interactionism
- KEY CONCEPTS
- Key interactionist thinkers
- George Herbert Mead
- Self and interactions with others
- People play roles to understand others
- by placing yourself into the role of others you can understand their reactions
- Self-concept can only develop if people understand how others perceive them
- People play roles to understand others
- Self and interactions with others
- Herbert Blumer
- importance of meanings
- Individuals behave in certain ways because of their interpretation of situations and what is appropriate
- shaped over time and through future interactions, not fixed
- Individuals behave in certain ways because of their interpretation of situations and what is appropriate
- importance of meanings
- Erving Goffman
- The dramaturgical approach
- People are social actors, assuming a persona in the same way an actor assumes a role
- Through clothing, language, body, language and behaviours to present themselves in a desirable way
- Without social interactions, people may lose sense of self/ change upon specific context
- People are social actors, assuming a persona in the same way an actor assumes a role
- The dramaturgical approach
- Howard Becker
- labelling theory
- looking-glass self- labels come to define the individual
- labels are internalised and people see themselves the way other people see them
- thus leading to a self-fulfilling prophecy
- labels can be rejected and self defeating prophecies formed
- labelling theory
- George Herbert Mead
- Evaluation
- Deterministic
- assumes that concepts such as labels and the self influence the behaviour of individuals
- ignores some of the wider social conflicts that might shape behaviours
- offering a more psychological approach, rather than a sociological one
- methodology used is subjective and small scale
- based upon interpretations of researchers looking to prove a specific point and not generalisable to society
- Deterministic
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