Symbolic interactionism revised: Potential liabilities for the self constructed in the crucible of interpersonal relationships

From: Merrill - Palmer Quarterly | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

The contributions are reviewed of three symbolic interactionists, Baldwin, Cooley, and Mead, for whom the self was primarily a social construction, crafted through the linguistic exchanges (i.e., symbolic interactions) with significant others. Although the symbolic interactionists pointed to crit ical processes in the normative construction of the self, they did not alert us to the fact that self development dependent upon social interactions could go awry. Four potential liabilities of developing a self so dependent upon social processes are discussed: (a) the incorporation of unfavorable ...

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