Discuss how the self connects with self-consciousness in regards to Mead’s writing and theory.
What will be an ideal response?
The self exists as self-consciousness, that is, the capacity to be both subject and object to one’s self that is made possible solely through interaction. As we project the possible implications of courses of action and attempt to elicit the desired responses from others, we become an “object” to ourselves.
However, an individual is aware of his self as an object, “not directly, but only indirectly, from the particular standpoints of other individual [s] . . . or from the generalized standpoint of the social group as a whole to which he belongs” (Mead 1934/1962:138). In turn, the experience of our self as an object becomes possible only by taking the attitudes of others toward our self.
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True or False
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