it can be explained by the Looking Glass Self Theory. It explains you’re your self-image is determined by how others see you (Gould & Howson, 2014).They feel confident when others look up to you. According to socialization, they must meet the requirement of the group of people of certain background to fit in, causing closed circles. They might feel it is the norm of that group to get the certain school because everyone of that group is getting it, affecting their self-esteem (emotional trait) if
This theory was derived primarily by George Mead and assisted by Charles Cooley. Symbolic interactionism looks at the social structures amongst individuals and a group of people, rather than looking at the large-scale perspective. Symbolic interactionism unveils different meanings through objects, events, and behaviors. These meanings can differ from the interpretations people assign to certain situations, and interpretations alter from one group
My first semester of college held many expectations for me. I sought to do well and thought I 'd have no problem earning A’s and maybe a B. The one class I was not looking forward to was Interpersonal Communication. I selected this course specifically thinking it would require the least amount of public speaking. I never imagined what a struggle this first semester would end up being. Even more surprising was the love and intrigue I developed for my communications class. It quickly became my favorite
intimacy, comfort and assistance. 2. What is the self? According to Charles Horton Cooley, explain the ‘looking glass self’ (discuss the three phases). George Herbert Mad also discusses the stages of the self: identify differences between I and Me. What is meant by significant others? How are significant others related to the self? Identify Mead’s three-stage process of self-development. -The self is our perception of who we are. The ‘looking glass self’ is a theory that states that we become the person
The looking glass self is a concept by Charles Cooley that has three steps. The first step is how an individual imagines how they appear to others, secondly, they imagine what judgments people have of them based on their appearance, and the third is how they imagine
Self-Image – Changing the Looking Glass The young girl sat on her bed and thought, “If I could just be taller, skinnier, if my hair was longer, my nose smaller, my legs slimmer, I know they would like me!” This discussion takes place with each girl or boy at different times in their lives. Depending on their environment, it can take place when they are five, fifteen or 25. Positively or negatively, developing a child’s self-esteem will affect the way they live, grow and learn. The Centers for Disease
Symbolic interactionism distinguishes between the social self by separating it into the ‘I’ (the self that thinks and acts), and the ‘Me’ (The self that is presented to the world) (Ibid:23). Theorists believe that the ‘Me’ is the part of the individual that is shaped by society and managed by the ‘I’, others argue that the ‘I’ is equally influenced by external relationships and influences (Ibid:24). The concept of the “Looking Glass Self” shows how large structures of social feedback can influence
Explain the looking glass theory and self-concept as they pertain to Shrek, Donkey, Princess Fiona, and Prince Farquar. Your answer needs to address the components of self. In your answer, include how self-concept affects the way that they communicate. Remember that communication includes cognitive, listening and speaking processes. According to the looking glass theory, we use others as a mirror to see ourselves and we imagine what others think of us then include these imaginings in our self concept
would be a prime example of someone experiencing Charles Cooley’s theory of the “looking glass self.” She has been completely shaped by her social environment, through no fault of her own, and has determined her strength through viewing the how males perceived her (Conley 117). This lose-lose scenario of a woman in a management level position who faces far more scrutiny than the equivalent man is known as the glass ceiling (310-11). It almost says enough by itself that there is a term for this phenomenon
It is the idea that a person's sense of self develops out of society's interpersonal interactions and perceptions of others. There are three elements covered by the looking glass self. The first element is that we imagine how we appear to those around us. For example, we may think that others perceive us as easy going and charming. The second element states that
[God] hath dealt with some of our countrymen your ancestors, for sundry vices not yet left, this book named A Mirror for Magistrates can shew; which therefore I humbly offer unto your Honors, beseeching you to accept it favorably. For here as in a looking glass, you shall see (if any vice be in you) how the like hath been punished in other heretofore, whereby, admonished, I trust it will be a good occasion to move you to the sooner amendment. William Baldwin, A Mirror for Magistrates (1559) B. In
Although Bo and I have very district pathways into My mother and grandma performed their gender identities of being a woman by cleaning, cooking, and taking car of the children. This began my developing definition of what it means to be a girl. However, I did not consciously accept this identity until I was in elementary school. One day after school I went into my mother’s closet and put on a pair of her heels. This instance could be referred to as an identity contingency. According to Claude steel
as social theory, class differences, racial prejudices, the effect of capitalism in society, and the role and extent of education Lewis Carroll challenges and satirizes these social constructs in his novels Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by the use of fantasy characters and settings. He confronts the reader indirectly through Alice; as the fantasy world of Wonderland disobeys Alice's established views, so does it disobey the reader's views. Throughout Alice in Wonderland, Alice
oneself through studies of children and their imaginary friends. Cooley develops the theoretical concept of the looking glass self, a type of imaginary sociability (Cooley 1902). People imagine the view of themselves through the eyes of others in their social circles and form judgements of themselves based on these imaginary observations (Cooley 1902). The main idea of the looking glass self is that people define themselves according to society's perception of them (www.d.umn.edu ). Cooley's ideas,
English Society Exposed in Gulliver's Travels In Gulliver's Travels, Swift takes us to many places that serve as a looking glass for the foibles of English society, but none of the places are as severe a censure of men as Houyhnhnmland. Here Swift has made a clear division of pure reason, embodied in the Houyhnhnms (maybe he was refering to "horse sense"), and raw passion, embodied in the Yahoos (which are "coincidentally" very manlike). Here Gulliver has to make the choice between Houyhnhnms
plot is the looking glass. It sees all, both inside and out, and its reflection is a foreshadowing of what unfolds in the story. It provides the foreshadow for a menacing presence and the mystery that follows, “Suddenly these reflections were ended violently and yet without a sound. A large black form loomed into the looking-glass; blotted out everything, strewed the table with a packet of marble tablets veined with pink and grey, and was gone” (Woolf, Longman 2454). The looking-glass is used to
were remarkably different - their voices were muted or amplified according to the beat of society's drum. Passages from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh can be contrasted with Virginia Woolf's portrayal of Isabella in The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection. The Victorian Era is known as the Age of Inquiry when all the foundational truths of the past were open to examination and reconsideration. Despite this new desire for certainty, Victorians were slow to release the safety
of many things (authority, my own identity, physical, mental and emotional changes, etc). A child's confusion is due to the massive series of contradictions that is childhood itself. In Lewis Carroll's novels Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass , the meaning of childhood and what it is to be a child and literally live in a child's world takes on an entirely different meaning than ever before. Similarly, the computer game based on the novels, American McGee's Alice , gives an interesting
Lewis Carroll’s works Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There are by many people considered nonsense books for children. Of course, they are, but they are also much more. Lewis Carroll had a great talent of intertwining nonsense and logic, and therefore creating sense within nonsense. If you look past the nonsense you can find a new meaning other than the one you found completing your third grade book report. You find that the books are full of references
At the mention of the name Alice, one tends to usually think of the children’s stories by Lewis Carroll. Namely, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are two classic works of children’s literature that for over a century have been read by children and adults alike. These two stories tell the tale of a young girl named Alice who finds herself in peculiar surroundings, where she encounters many different and unusual characters. Although Alice is at the centre of both stories