Revealing the Link Between G.H. Mead’s Social Construction of the Self and Society

Abstract

Students greatly enjoy Symbolic Interactionist theories, approaches, and scholarship, which often become a source of recruitment to the sociology major. However, students also struggle with visualizing George Herbert Mead’s I, Me, and Self in action or how the reflexive process of self construction links to macro societal processes and structures. This...

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Details

Subject Area(s):

Theory

Resource Type(s):

Class Activity

Class Level(s):

College 300

Class Size(s):

Any

Usage Notes

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Learning Goals and Assessments

Learning Goal(s):

1. Goal 1: Students practice reading comprehension of a theoretical text
2. Goal 2: Students demonstrate understanding of concepts by recognizing them in a documentary
3. Goal 3: Students apply concepts to their own lives

Goal Assessment(s):

1. Assessment 1: Students write and verbally explain Mead’s concepts based on selections from Mind, Self and Society through guided in-class discussion.
2. Assessment 2: Students identify examples of concepts from the Frontline documentary, A Class Divided first in written and then verbal form
3. Assessment 3: Students independently assess their own behavior and peer interactions and present findings in essay format