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Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Sociology
of self
Proposed to be offered next in 1997
W H Foddy
Synopsis This option deals, primarily from a symbolic interactionist
point of view, with the following topics: measurement techniques; the role of
`typifications' in social interaction (motives, emotions, disclaimers,
excuses); self process in subhuman species; emergence of self-processes in
humans; self-evaluation/self-esteem; objective self-awareness; role-taking;
presentation of self; self-monitoring; embarrassment/stigma; self-disclosure;
privacy; obscenity; loneliness; shame and guilt, anger, shyness; jealousy;
love; identity crises; and the relationship between social structure and
self.
Assessment Seminar paper (2000 words): 40% + Essay (4000 words): 60%
Preliminary reading
- Baldwin J D George Herbert Mead: A unifying theory for sociology
Sage, 1986
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