SYMBOLIC

INTERACTIONI
SM
What is Symbolic
Interactionism?
Symbolic interactionism is viewing
society as composed of symbols that
people use to establish meaning,
develop views about the world, and
communicate with one another. We
are thinking beings who act according
Main Principles:
 Human beings act towards
things on the basis of the
meanings that things have
them.
 These meanings arise out of
social interaction.
Charles Cooley’s Looking Glass
Self
 We imagine how we must
appear to others.
 We imagine the judgment of
that appearance;
 We develop our self through
The Looking Glass Self Model
PSYCHOANAL
YSIS
SIGMUND
What is Psychoanalysis?
It was founded by Sigmund Freud.
Freud believed that people could be
cured by making conscious their
unconscious thoughts and
motivations, thus gaining insight.
What is ID, EGO, AND SUPER
EGO?
The id, ego, and super-ego are the
three distinct, interacting agents in
the psychic apparatus defined in 
Sigmund Freud's structural model of
the psyche. The three agents are
theoretical constructs that describe
ID...
This is an unconscious part of
your personality. It is basically the
childish and impulsive part of you
that just does what it wants, and it
wants things really intensely and
doesn't really think about the
SUPEREGO..
. The superego is the part
of you that's super
judgmental and moralizing
and is always trying to get
you to behave in a socially
EGO...
The ego is 'that part of
the id which has been
modified by the direct
influence of the external
world.'