George herbert mead & erving goffman
- 1. GEORGE HERBERT MEAD The Social Self Theory
- 2. •American philosopher prominent in both social psychology and the development of PRAGMATISM.
- 4. •Mead describes how the individual mind and self arises out of the social process. •Self consciousness comes about a result of the organism’s interaction with it’s environment.
- 5. • He believe that the self is not present at birth but is a social product the develops through socialization. • He thought that spoken language played a central role in this development. Through language the child can take the role of other persons and guide his behaviour in terms of the effect his contemplated behaviour will have upon others.
- 6. “I AND ME THEORY” •“I” represents the unorganized, undirected tendencies of the self •“Me” is the socialized self which consists of the internalized social attitudes of tohers, the insividual acts toward himself formt he perspective of the community.
- 7. • Father of Social Behaviorism • human beings are distinguished from other animals by their ability to imagine themselves in the place of the other • Language, gesture, communication, and role-taking are thus central to the symbolic interaction by which the self is constructed, and which forms the basis of social life.
- 8. ERVING GOFFMAN THE DRAMATURGICAL APPROACH
- 9. (1922-1982)
- 10. • was a major Canadian-American sociologist who played a significant role in the development of modern American sociology. He is considered by some to be the most influential sociologist of the 20th century, thanks to his many significant and lasting contributions to the field. He is widely known and celebrated as a major figure in the development of symbolic interaction theory and for developing the dramaturgical perspective.
- 11. • In his classic work, “The Presentation Of Self In Everyday Life Stresses” that it is only by influencing other’s idea of us that we expect or even control what happen to us. • Goffman views social life as a stage where people interact with one another. People are viewed as members of the audience and as actors. • Dramaturgical approach- Goffman compares the behavior of people in a society to acting on a stage.
- 12. •People are acting out on a script on society’s (real life) expectation and even making improvements in order to impress the audience. •In short, people are “social actors” who do not have a “real self”,but many “real selves”. •Father of Dramaturgy.