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What is Charles Horton Cooley's concept of 'the looking glass self'?

The concept suggests that our self-image is shaped by how we think others see us.

What are the processes involved in the emergence of the self, according to the looking glass self?

  • How we imagine how we look to others
  • How we imagine other people's judgments of us
  • Experiencing feelings about ourselves based on perceptions of others' judgments
  • All of the above (correct)

    • How do we determine our sense of self, according to Charles Horton Cooley?

    We see ourselves as we imagine others see us.

    What is the idea that society is in the mind?

    <p>The imaginations people have of one another are the solid facts of society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is reflected appraisal?

    <p>What you think of yourself based on others' judgments; the influence of others on one's self-concept.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is George Mead's perspective on the self?

    <p>The self is something which has a development and arises from social experience and activity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a social theory of the self, according to Mead?

    <p>The interconnectedness between self and social experience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the self as an object, according to Mead?

    <p>The self has the characteristic of being an object to itself, distinguishing it from other objects.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the two areas of development of the self according to Mead?

    <p>'Me': the self as a distinct object perceived by others</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the generalized other?

    <p>An internalized sense of the total expectations of others in various settings.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Match Mead's stages of social development with the correct description:

    <p>I/Me = The dual aspects of self Significant other = Individuals with strong emotional ties Reference group = Groups that individuals look to for standards Generalized other = The internalized societal expectations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the components of the self related to Mead?

    <p>The 'Me' and 'I' duality, where 'I' represents the subject of action and 'Me' represents the socialized self.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is sociology?

    <p>The systematic study of social life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the turf view of studying social life?

    <p>Sociology has its own turf, distinct area of social life alongside politics, the economy, history, language, etc.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the 'angle of vision' of studying social life?

    <p>Sociology has a distinctive set of sensibilities and orientations on social life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the sociological imagination?

    <p>The ability to understand the connections between biography and history.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the task and promise of the sociological imagination?

    <p>Enables understanding of the larger historical scene in terms of individual lives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does a sociologist as a scientist function?

    <p>Someone concerned with understanding society in a disciplined, objective way.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does a sociologist as a spy function?

    <p>Primarily interested in understanding for its own sake.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is normativity?

    <p>A shared belief in society that no one questions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does sociology on an emancipatory level look like?

    <p>Understanding how social constructs are created and questioning their inevitability.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does sociology as a way of thinking look like?

    <p>Holistic, synthetic, contextualizing, and critical.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is macrosociology?

    <p>The study of large-scale patterns and processes in society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is microsociology?

    <p>The study of small-scale patterns of social interaction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is 'the challenge' according to Mills?

    <p>Men often feel trapped by their private lives and limited in their ambitions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are some tricks for thinking sociologically?

    <p>People doing things together, context, and asking 'how?' instead of 'why?'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the two sides of sociology?

    <p>Making familiar what is strange and making the familiar unfamiliar.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is nonconformity/deviant behavior?

    <p>Behaviors that deviate from societal expectations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is intersubjectivity?

    <p>Shared meanings that promote coordination of action.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the goal of socialization/internalization?

    <p>Correspondence between socially shared reality and subjective experience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the existential view of reality?

    <p>Objective reality exists independently, and is deterministic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is human nature NOT?

    <p>It is not created by human activities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are examples of our biological constitution (human nature)?

    <p>Death, procreation, disease.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is reification?

    <p>The error of creating a concept and assuming it has concrete reality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does sociology work against reification?

    <p>By showing how social arrangements are socially constructed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How are different realities formed?

    <p>The more people act as though something is real, the more it becomes consequential.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does it mean to say something is socially constructed?

    <p>It is not natural or inevitable; it is a product of social activity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Thomas Theorem?

    <p>Situations defined as real are real in their consequences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the main points of Berger and Luckmann's article?

    <p>Social order is a human product and shaped by human interactions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the social construction of identity?

    <p>Identity is formed through social processes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the social construction of reality?

    <p>The process whereby people create a shared reality through actions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the social construction of ways of seeing the social world?

    <p>Seeing the world through categories and acting based on those.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the two kinds of conceptual lenses in the social construction of reality?

    <p>Universal species-wide and common to a particular group.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How was the first act of Creation divisive?

    <p>God divided light from the darkness, representing separation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does separating entities from their surroundings do?

    <p>Allows us to perceive and make them meaningful.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does Karl Mannheim say about the solitary thinker?

    <p>The single individual does not think in isolation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is classification/typification?

    <p>An artificial process of concept formation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is framing in sociology?

    <p>Surrounding situations with mental brackets to create a shared definition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the ubiquitous role of language?

    <p>Something we learn with others over time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do the things we do, choices we make, meanings we give, etc., do?

    <p>Affect the organization of our everyday life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are social beings?

    <p>Products of particular social environments that shape our cognition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the social foundations of our thinking?

    <p>Link between differentiation and perception.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the social construction of mental illness?

    <p>Historical variability in naming and framing mental disorders.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the processes of social construction?

    <p>Socialization, institutionalization, history, power, conflict.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the transition to illegality?

    <p>Marked as insiders and outsiders with conflicting membership meanings.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the stages of becoming?

    <p>Discovering, learning to be illegal, and coping.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is symbolic interactionism?

    <p>The study of human action based on meanings derived from social interaction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the social construction of the self?

    <p>Identifying who we are as social products.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the self as social?

    <p>Our sense of self develops through interactions with others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the 'Anna' example illustrate?

    <p>The effects of extreme social isolation on human development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the mirror exercise?

    <p>Distinguishing oneself from the physical environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is self-awareness?

    <p>The awareness of one's distinct identity separate from others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is socialization?

    <p>The process whereby an infant becomes a self-aware individual within culture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are some agents of socialization?

    <p>Family, education, peers, media.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Sociology Fundamentals

    • Sociology systematically studies social life, focusing on the "how" and "why" of human actions and relationships.
    • Distinct from other social sciences, sociology has its own "turf," examining societal dynamics alongside politics, economy, and history.

    Sociological Imagination

    • The sociological imagination, articulated by C. Wright Mills, links individual biographies to broader historical contexts, revealing shared social issues masked as personal problems.
    • It empowers individuals to understand personal experiences in relation to collective social phenomena.

    Roles of Sociologists

    • A sociologist operates as a scientist, adhering to disciplined, objective analysis based on research and evidence.
    • Alternatively, the sociologist can be perceived as a "spy," primarily concerned with theoretical understanding rather than direct social activism, though this is debated.

    Conceptual Foundations

    • Normativity refers to unquestioned societal beliefs.
    • Sociology operates on an emancipatory level, recognizing that social constructs can be challenged and reformed.

    Types of Sociology

    • Macrosociology studies large-scale social patterns and processes, while microsociology focuses on small-scale interactions in specific contexts.

    Challenges in Understanding Society

    • Mills articulates the "challenge" of feeling trapped within private lives, emphasizing the need for sociological insight to recognize individual agency in the face of societal constraints.
    • Tricks for sociological thinking include recognizing collective actions, contextual situations, and asking "how?" instead of merely "why?"

    Deviation and Construction

    • Nonconformity indicates behaviors that diverge from societal expectations.
    • Intersubjectivity captures shared meanings that facilitate coordinated actions among individuals.

    Socialization and Perception

    • Socialization aims for alignment between socially shared reality and individual experiences, shaping human identity through interactions.
    • Existential views maintain that reality exists independently, while human nature is often misunderstood as fixed and outside societal influences.

    Reification and Reality Construction

    • Reification occurs when socially constructed concepts are treated as concrete realities, obscuring their origins in human activity.
    • The social construction of reality entails that definitions of what is real gain consequences as people act upon them.

    Influence of Language and Classification

    • Language is critical for constructing shared understandings and societal definitions, while classification processes influence how entities and categories are perceived.

    Identity and the Self

    • Identity develops socially, referencing historical contexts and interactions.
    • The self emerges through reflections on how one is perceived by others, creating a social product influenced by collective judgments.

    George Herbert Mead and Self Development

    • Mead posits that the self evolves through social experiences, highlighting the relational aspect of self-concept.
    • Reflected appraisal describes how perceptions of others' evaluations shape self-identity, illustrating that perceived reactions are more influential than actual ones.

    Social Foundations of Thought

    • Social beings are shaped by their environments, and the acts and choices made define social reality, impacting overall organization and interaction within society.

    Symbolic Interactionism

    • Symbolic interactionism examines how individuals act based on meanings derived from social interactions, evolving through interpretative processes.
    • The self is not an inherent trait but rather a product of ongoing social engagement and activity, reinforcing the principle that "without society, there is no self."### Definition of Self
    • The self can be both an object and subject, distinguishing it from other objects and the body.
    • Individual experiences of the self are indirect, influenced by perceptions from others in the social group.

    Areas of Development of the Self (Mead)

    • "I": Represents the unsocialized infant, driven by innate desires without recognition of self or boundaries between self and others.
    • "Me": Embodies the socialized self, shaped through interactions and recognizability by others.

    Generalized Other

    • Refers to an internalized understanding of societal expectations in diverse contexts, associated with "communities of attitudes."
    • Example illustrates progression from individual behavior to a collective societal norm against spilling soup.

    Mead's Stages of Social Development

    • Development comprises four stages:
      • I/Me: Initial self-awareness
      • Significant Other: Key individuals influencing the self
      • Reference Group: Group that provides a standard for comparison
      • Generalized Other: Collective societal attitudes and expectations

    Components of the Self (Mead)

    • Self consists of both "Me" and "I," emphasizing that behavior is not entirely dictated by social reflection.
    • The process of self is ongoing, involving a continual dialogue about societal expectations and personal feelings.
    • Highlights the interdependence between self and society, where "I" experiences emotions while "Me" maintains societal expectations silently.

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