Terms and Concepts 1
Anything can be thought of as this, these are the products of social interaction, and language is the most powerful example of this.
What is a symbol?
This is a social behavior between two or more people during which some type of communication takes place.
What is an interaction?
According to the four foundations of symbolic interactionism, meaning comes not from objects themselves, but from this.
What are our interactions with objects?
This person's primary contributions focused on the self, and this person is recognized as having influenced symbolic interactionism the most.
Who is George Herbert Mead?
This refers to the multiple perspectives that each family member may bring to family therapy.
What is a multiverse?
This is a set of social norms for a specific situations. This could also be called a "part."
What is a role?
This refers to the amount of importance something is to us. We divide our time among each of our roles based on the amount of this that the role has in our lives.
What is salience?
During this stage of developing a sense of self, the child tries to use gestures to practice the behaviors associated with different roles.
What is the play stage?
This person is best known for the idea of the looking-glass self.
Who is Charles Horton Cooley?
This is the goal of therapy according to second-order cybernetics.
What is a change in the context?
Roles that are most salient for us are also those that are most likely to define this.
What is our identity?
These are acts the represent something else.
What are gestures?
During this stage, children begin to take on the perspectives of many people at one time and to see how the individual fits in that group.
What is the game stage?
This person was the first person to use the term symbolic interactionism.
Who is Herbert Blumer?
This refers to how different paths can lead to the same ending.
What is equifinality?
Because we want others to have a good impression of us, we will take on roles in public that fit within the social norms of our current environment according to the notion of this.
What is impression management?
These are the social norms families have for how they interact with each other during holidays or special events, and symbols and gestures are an important part of these too.
What are rituals?
This is the premise that individuals think about how they appear to others, make a judgment about what the other person thinks about them, and then incorporate those ideas into their own concept of self.
What is the looking-glass self?
This person described people's behavior as being similar to a theatrical performance.
Who was Erving Goffman?
This refers to self-generating.
What is autopoiesis?
These are expectations about how to act in a given situation.
What are social norms?
These are the three overarching themes of symbolic interactionism according to the EXPLORING text.
What are meaning, self-concept, and a discussion of society?
This event in time left people feeling that they had little or no control over their lives. During this time people were moving from rural areas to urban areas.
What was the industrial revolution?
They wrote a book that was one of the first to state that the family has a role in the socialization process.
Who were William Isaac Thomas and Florian Znaniecki?
These are four of the six basic assumptions of systems theory.