Overview
SOC 421 - Classical Social Theory
Reading Question Assignment #4 – Mead: Mind, Self, & Society
Please answer the following question based on your reading of and the lecture regarding Mead’s work: “Mind, Self, & Society”
“Recall a social act or interaction from your life. Analyze and describe the “I” and the “me” within the situation. Describe the possible lines of action that you were faced with at each stage in the act or interaction and explain which lines you chose to pursue and which lines you chose to reject. Explain the ways in which you took the attitude of the other.”
RUBRIC:
Answers must respond to all components of the question.
1.) Answer describes a social act or interaction from the student’s own personal experience.
2.) Answer describes the student’s internal “conversation of significant gestures” in the situation as it pertains to the roles of the “I” and the “Me” and their respective parts.
3.) Answer describes the possible lines of action that were available to the student in this situation.
4.) Answer reflects which lines of action the student chose to employ, and which lines were discarded.
5.) Answer includes the student’s recollection on the process of taking the attitude of the other in their internal conversation of significant gestures.
- Document must be typed
- Document must be between 250-350 words
- Document clearly displays the WORD COUNT at the bottom of the text