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1. what's the difference between Cooley's looking-glass self and Mead's social behaviorism?
TPR review says that looking-glass self means self-concept is developed based on how others perceive us; social behaviorism is defined as mind and self emerge through process of interpersonal communication.
This is how i see it:
looking-glass self = you're literally looking at a bunch of "looking-glasses" pertaining to different people in your life; the glasses are meant to literally reflect the people's perception of you, and using that you construct your self-concept
social behaviorism = more abstract/philosophical idea about how we construct self-concept; we go through stages of imitation, adoption of one role, adoption of multiple simultaneous roles, and formation of the "generalized other" (which is pretty much the entire society mushed up together into this one blob); it also intersects with the part of symbolic interactionism that states that we change the meaning we ascribe to symbols around us by our interpersonal interactions
2. Also, shouldn't social behaviorism be defined as the formation of the mind, the self, AND the generalized other?
TPR review says that looking-glass self means self-concept is developed based on how others perceive us; social behaviorism is defined as mind and self emerge through process of interpersonal communication.
This is how i see it:
looking-glass self = you're literally looking at a bunch of "looking-glasses" pertaining to different people in your life; the glasses are meant to literally reflect the people's perception of you, and using that you construct your self-concept
social behaviorism = more abstract/philosophical idea about how we construct self-concept; we go through stages of imitation, adoption of one role, adoption of multiple simultaneous roles, and formation of the "generalized other" (which is pretty much the entire society mushed up together into this one blob); it also intersects with the part of symbolic interactionism that states that we change the meaning we ascribe to symbols around us by our interpersonal interactions
2. Also, shouldn't social behaviorism be defined as the formation of the mind, the self, AND the generalized other?
