Sociological Perspective Flashcards
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one of the disciplines in social science which aims to discover the ways by which the social surrounding/environment influences people’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
Sociology
Who proposed Social Behaviorism?
George Herbert Mead
Describe the power of environment in shaping human behavior
Social Behaviorism
The self as dimension of blank that is made up of the individual’s blank and blank
personality
self-awareness
self-image
The self cannot be separated from?
the society
A stage where Self does not exist at birth
Preparatory Stage
Self develops over time through
Social Interaction and experience
Children’s behavior is primarily based on
Imitation
Knowing and understanding blank are important to constitute their way of communicating with others
symbols
A stage where a child widens his perspective and realizes that he is not alone.
Play Stage
constitutes basis for socialization to form social relationships
Symbols
the process of assuming the perspective of another person to see how this person might behave or respond in a given situation.
Role-taking
A stage where the child now has the ability to respond not just to one but several members of his social environment and consider several tasks and various types of relationships
Game Stage
used to explain the behavior when a person considers other people in the course of his action. The person realizes the cultural norms, beliefs, & values incorporated to each self. It forms the basis of self-evaluation.
Generalized others
play a major role in the formation of the self
Family
Children see themselves as blank and have difficulties understanding people around them.
universe
The self functions as subject.
I self
The self functions as object.
Me Self
Sociopsychological approach to understand how societies work and wrote Human Nature and the Social Order (1902)
Charles Horton Cooley
Self is a product of social interaction.
Looking-glass self
Seeing oneself is based on contemplating one’s blank and the view of the self is also influenced by the blank of other people.
personal qualities
impression
3 Phases of Self-development
- how they present themselves to others
- how others evaluate them
- develop some sort of feeling about themselves as a result of those impressions
Word Cooley used to describe the possibility that people develop self-identities based on the wrong perception of how others see them.
Imagine
Known for his role in the development of Modern American Sociology
Erving Goffman