Re: questions
Richard Clark Eckert (rceckert@umich.edu)
Thu, 8 Feb 1996 12:23:27 -0500 (EST)
Shannon asks a question that addresses a weakness in Mead's idea of
seperate selves can only exist in the disturbed. Without hurting the
brain too much here I might suggest that people of color and women would
have multiple selves because they have multiple others. DuBois called it
a double consciousness produced by interacting with a double
environment. I don't mean different reference groups either. Blumer
examined the interactions between racial ideology and social structures.
I don't have exact citations here - Citations can be found in _Racial
Fault Lines_ by Tomas Almaguer, UC Press, 1994). Since Blumer identifies
a superordinate other then I must presume that a subordinate other exists
also.
To the second part of Shannon's question, it would seem that some
interaction would have to take place. A problem I am wrestling with in a
paper I am putting together at this time is whether "I(sub a)" can
interact with "I(sub b)". Still working on it. If they can, then I can
no longer be certain that "separate" is an accurate way to describe that
which is "distinct" or "different". I love the question though.
Richard
On Thu, 8 Feb 1996, shannon lee bangs wrote:
> .... I guess what I am asking, basically, is there more than one
> subjective self and if so do these seperate selves serve entirely
> different purposes or do they interact with each other? Just something to
> think about.
>
> -Shannon Bangs
>