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Written Report: George Herbert Mead Reporters: Lovely Faith N. Jovellanos, Sandra Marie Paltao

UTS Schedule: Tuesday and Friday 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Biography: George Herbert Mead was born on February 27, 1863 in South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA. He graduated from Oberlin College. He also studied in Harvard University on 1887. He wrote and published article review but did not published any book. It was his students who gathered his writings and published it. He is the son of Hiram Mead, a local family pastor and professor at Oberlin Theological Seminary and Elizabeth Mead who is also a professor in Oberlin College. He is an American philosopher and also a prominent in sociopsychology ang pragmatism. -

Pragmatism- reality is based on an individual’s interactions with the world around them and thus, reality and truth are capsulated within the individual. Truth is relative and subjective to the individual

Sociology - Aims to analyze the society (environment influences) in general - Factors that cause people to act in a certain way in the presence of other people - How behaviors are formed and how they affect social interaction

Social Psychology - How social influences affects people’s behavior, thoughts, emotions ain their own cultural setting - Seeks to explain social order and disorder - Ultimate goal is to understand how people are molded by various cultural and social norms

Mead’s Distinction from other Philosophers: The self develops only through social experience -

Mead rejected Freud’s notion that the self is determined by biological drives.

Exchange of symbols -

Mead emphasized that individuals learn through the use of language symbols and gestures in a social experience.

From the perspective of others

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Mead believes social experiences depends on how we see ourselves based on others perspective (Generalized Other) For Mead, existence in a community comes before individual consciousness.

Mead’s Theory of Social Self Social Behaviorism -

Is the approach of Mead to describe the power of the environment in shaping the human behavior. People develop self-images and self-awareness, that is, what constitutes the SELF is a product of social experience

Self-Awareness -

Being fully aware of one’s self One becomes the focus of attention You also relate to the environment and interpret and express emotions You now that you are not a separate entity from the environment

Self-Images -

Mental picture, both as a physical body and an individual How we see ourselves (internally and externally)

Mead’s Theory of Social Self 1. -

Preparatory Stage- birth up to 2 years old. The self is non existent Children mimic or imitate those around them Children learn and interact through symbols, gestures and language.

Example: Use of symbol books or toys, Parents don’t use foul words to their children at home. 2. -

Play Stage- 2-6 or 7 years old Children play pretend or role-play; they do not follow rules Play develops one’s self consciousness through role playing Internalize the perspective of others Children develops an understanding of how others feel about themselves Child are basically actors

Example: Bahay-Bahayan 3. Game Stage- 8 or 9 years old

Meads Theory of the Self Based on the stages, Mead came up with the Theory of the self. It states that the self is not yet present at birth but begins in a child’s world. Children see themselves as the center of the universe and is having difficulty understanding the others around them, as these children grow, there is a change in the self. Family plays a major role in the formation of the self and they are the significant others who strongly influence his development. (Schaefer,2012) THE SELF -

is not present at birth but emerges from social interactions, they are formed within the society. Composed of two parts, the I and the Me.

“Mind can never find expression, and could never have come to existence at all, except in terms of a social environment” – George Herbert Mead

The I and Me I self -It is when the person initiates or performs social actions Example: I will go on a date. (the person performs a social action)

ME self -When the person takes the of the other. Example: The choice for the best drawing was awarded to me.

(I as a response to social self) -how we see our selves - personal response to what society thinks Example: John thinks that he is funny because he was told that he is funny. I think I’m funny.

(ME as the social self) -how we believe others see us -society’s view of our selves Example: We see John as a funny person. He told me that I’m funny.

-reflects on actions and make self-conscious choices. Example: Magrereflect ako at maiisip ko na oo nga maingay ako and I will make the choice to be quiet.

-represents how you act (your behavior, expectations and attitude) learned through interaction with others Example: Sinabi ng prof ko na ang ingay ingay ko. (My professor told me that I’m noisy)

- is the part of ourselves that is the response of the individual to the attitude of the community as this appears in his own experience. Sample scenario: Nag away kayo ng nanay mo at ang dami dami nyang sinasabi sayo at sobrang ingay nya talaga In you I perspective: sinasabi mo na “Ano ba to si mama ang ingay ingay wala nanaman akong ginagawa ang ingay pa rin.”

- is the part of the self that regulates our behavior based on how we imagine others to perceive us. Sample scenario: Nag away kayo ng nanay mo at ang dami dami nyang sinasabi sayo at sobrang ingay nya talaga In your ME perspective interprets how she expect you to react to her as her son/ daughter. Therefore, magrerespond ka in a respectful way.

The objective element of “THE SELF” is the “ME”. Because, according to George Mead “the self” is not present at birth but it emerges from social interaction and “Me” is the society’s view of us and the “I” is our response or opinion to “Me” therefore it is subjective.

Conclusion: It should be remembered that the formation of the self is not the end of the process of socialization. Socialization continues for as long as the person is alive. The self may change based on life circumstances that have strong impact on it. Events such as death of a loved one, disease or disability may reshape the self. Though a person may have no control of such events, he has control over how he reacts and deals with it which is still more important aspect of the self. (Macionis,2012) -

The self may be ever changing because it is still the persons choice if he wants to change himself as the society or his environment changes....