4.2

•  Me 

  • Generalized others 
  • Refers to the meanings, roles, and values of others that an individual organizes as part of their own self.
• I

  • It is the immediate response of an individual to others. 
  • Refers to the part of the self that is identified as having freedom of creativity.
• Symbolic Interactionism 

  •  In interaction there are symbols. 
• Symbols – are the perceived meaning from interactions may it be from words or gestures.
• 3 Premises of Symbolic Interactionism 

  • Meaning
  • socialization
  • behaviors
• Significant symbol 

  • A vocal or other kind of gesture that arouses in the one using it, the same response as it arouses to those to whom it is directed. 
  • Human beings interact with one another based on meanings. 
• Types of Signs

  • signs
  • natural signs
  • conventional signs
• The Looking Glass Self 

  • People who dwell in the conformity can barely get rid of the impression that the way we live in which we are used to is the normal 
  • Suggests that the self-feeling and social feeling be up-to-date with each other and be put into harmony
• Three Principle Elements of Looking Glass-self

  • The imagination of our appearance to other person
  • The imagination of his judgement to that appearance
  • Some sort of self-feeling such as pride or mortification
• Performer - a harried fabricator of impressions involved in the all human task of staging performance; 
• Character - a figure, typically a fine one, whose spirit, strength, and other sterling qualities the performers were designed to evoke. (Goffman, 1952)
• Front Stage

  • The behavior is observed 
  • When individuals are aware that others are watching 
  • Behavior is reflected with the set norms in a given setting
• Back stage 

  • Individuals are free from the expectations and norms that influences behavior 
  • People more comfortable and often associated with “true self.”
• Meaning - Element of the human existence
• People identify and shape their symbolic references through socialization
• Behaviors are learned processes, a cultural dimension exist that connects the symbolic educational development.
• Social Interactions affects the development of the self or what he calls the “Social Self.”
• Impression Management - Is defined as a conscious decision on the part of the individual to reveal certain aspects of the self and to conceal others, as actors do when performing on stage. And this is where dramatic realization comes in.
• Dramatic realization - Emphasizes that while in the presence of others, the individual typically infuses his activity with signs which dramatically highlight and portray confirmatory facts that might otherwise remain un- apparent or obscure.