scholarly journals From genogram to genograph: Using narrative means to contextualize social reality in the counselling session

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J.M Van Niekerk ◽  
R. L. Van Niekerk ◽  
H. Mushonga ◽  
A Dogger
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Therapy ◽  
Family System ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
The Self ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Personal Meanings ◽  
Counselling Session ◽  
Point Of Departure

This article addresses a process that occurs when applying narrative therapy during a counselling session, namely moving away from the genogram towards the more effective genograph. Narrative therapy implies that we often talk and share stories about ourselves and that these stories are usually within a social context, whether it is our families, personal relationships or work. Stories are an important aspect in narrative therapy and therefore the counsellor must be aware of a family’s different contexts both as a family system, and as a group of individual members. The article takes as point of departure the thoughts of Charles Horton Cooley and George Herbert Mead and their influence on the development of the ‘self’ and the construction of our social reality within this process. It further argues in favour of the use of a genograph as a symbolic representation of the personal meanings of a family member’s experience of the dominant and alternative stories with which they live.

Mead, George Herbert (1863–1931)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Joas
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
William James ◽  
The Self ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
American Pragmatism ◽  
Charles Peirce ◽  
Infantile Development

Together with Charles Peirce, William James and John Dewey, George Herbert Mead is considered one of the classic representatives of American pragmatism. He is most famous for his ideas about the specificities of human communication and sociality and about the genesis of the ‘self’ in infantile development. By developing these ideas, Mead became one of the founders of social psychology and – mostly via his influence on the school of symbolic interactionism – one of the most influential figures in contemporary sociology. Compared to that enormous influence, other parts of his philosophical work are relatively neglected.

Countersystem Analysis and the Construction of Alternative Futures

2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon Sjoberg ◽  
Elizabeth A. Gill ◽  
Leonard D Cain
Keyword(s):  
George Herbert ◽  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
Early Modernity ◽  
Theoretical Inquiry ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
The Future ◽  
Point Of Departure

This essay explicates the role of countersystem analysis as an essential mode of social inquiry. In the process, particular attention is given to the place of negation and the future. One underlying theme is the asymmetry between the negative and the positive features of social activities, the negative being more readily identifiable empirically than the positive. A corollary theme, building on the observations of George Herbert Mead, is: one engages the present through experience; one engages the future through ideas. Furthermore, as Anthony Giddens, Ulrich Beck, and Niklas Luhmann suggest, we in late modernity seem to be facing a future that is more contingent than it was in early modernity. After articulating the foundations of the mode of inquiry we term “countersystem analysis,” we employ Karl Mannheim as a point of departure for critically surveying a constellation of scholars—conservatives as well as reformers—who have relied upon some version of countersystem analysis in addressing the future. Such an orientation serves to advance not only theoretical inquiry but empirical investigation as well.

Life histories and the perspective of the present

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaretha Järvinen
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Past Experience ◽  
The Self ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
True Self ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
The Past

The purpose of the article is to suggest a development of the narrative life history tradition along the lines represented by George Herbert Mead and Paul Ricoeur. This theoretical approach is presented as an alternative to both subjectivist approaches, that continue the search for the solitary, true self behind the life histories, and to structuralist approaches, in which the self and its past experience disappears. In the article a theoretical framework is sketched that a) focuses on “the perspective of the present” but does not lose sight of the past, and b) emphasizes the interactionist dimensions of life histories but also pays attention to the self and its ongoing projects. The reasonings of Mead and Ricoeur are applied to a series of empirical examples, drawn from different areas of life history research. (Time, Narrative, Emplotment, Life Histories, Self, Mead, Ricoeur)

Objective meaning: The formation of self in Mead and Sohn-Rethel

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-46
Author(s):  
Magnus Granberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Processes ◽  
Unintended Consequence ◽  
The Self ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Commodity Exchange ◽  
The Social ◽  
Objective Meaning ◽  
Self Formation ◽  
Interpretative Sociology

This analysis of the work of George Herbert Mead and Alfred Sohn-Rethel compares their respective accounts of the formation of the self. The analysis proceeds from two important similarities: the effort to understand self-consciousness not as primordial but as the product of social processes, and the view that these processes form a circuit: the self arises from consciousness’ return to itself, concluding a movement whereby consciousness is first externalized onto objects and then internalized, taking on the insular shape of self-consciousness. What sets the two accounts apart is the site from whence the self returns: objects. In Mead, the self returns from meaningful objects, and this same (intersubjective) meaning is entangled with the process of self-formation. In contrast, for Sohn-Rethel, the self returns from objects whose meaning is not established intersubjectively but objectively: the self is the unintended consequence of commodity exchange. In Mead, interaction among people affords meaning to objects and thus evokes the self; in Sohn-Rethel, interaction among commodities evokes an objective meaning that renders people as selves. Interpretative sociology should attend to the objectively and unconsciously meaningful forms analyzed by Sohn-Rethel. To illustrate this conclusion, reference is made to a certain experience of the social under neoliberalism.

scholarly journals PEMBENTUKAN KONSEP DIRI SATUAN PASPAMPRES RI

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-158
Author(s):  
Melani Kurniasih Sormin ◽  
Ilham Prisgunanto
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Symbolic Interactionism ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
The Mind

The results showed that individual PASPAMPRES personnel have thoughts and self-assessment of quality and are superior, have a favorable opportunity for promotion compared to other unit personnel. This study aims to determine how the formation of self-concept in the personnel of the PASPAMPRES unit based on the situation and facts where PASPAMPRES is an elite unit containing selected and qualified soldiers who have certain skills and privileges to be able to carry out Presidential VVIP security duties. A strict personnel admission selection where not all TNI soldiers can pass and have the desired qualifications make PASPAMPRES personnel called superior and elected personnel. The reason this research was conducted was to find out how this situation had its own impact on the self-concept of the selected PASPAMPRES personnel. The theory used is the Symbolic Interactionism theory by George Herbert Mead, Self-Concept and Group Thought Theory. This research methodology uses a constructivism paradigm with a qualitative approach and data collection techniques using interviews. The focus of this research focuses on how the mind, self, and society as well as the climate of the PASPAMPRES unit can influence the formation of personnel self-concept.

The Self as a Center of Ethical Gravity: A Constructive Dialogue Between Søren Kierkegaard and George Herbert Mead

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Hjortkjær ◽  
Søren Willert
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Striking Similarity ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Constructive Dialogue ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dual Relation ◽  
Normative Aspect

AbstractThis paper examines the striking similarity between Kierkegaard’s and Mead’s theories of the self as relation, reflection and process as well as the normativity behind these theories. It is claimed that the theologian and the social psychologist share the view that the human being is an ethical being because its self is a dual relation; it relates to itself and in this relating it relates to an Other. Thus, regardless of their diverging views on the nature of this Other, they both define that of becoming a self as an unavoidable task: the task of standing in an ethical relation to oneself and to the Other. It is argued that differences in professions can be overcome: while reading Kierkegaard in the light of Mead helps to underline the relational character of Kierkegaard’s ethical notions, reading Mead in the light of Kierkegaard underlines the normative aspect of Mead’s social psychology.

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