I. Social life accomplished through interaction according to conventions.
 
 
 
 

II. Communication is the primary process of social life.
 
 
 
 

III. Social structure is a product of interaction rather than the other
      way around.
 
 
 
 

IV. Reality is the changing meanings worked out by people using
      language and communication.
 
 

I. Symbolic Interactionism
 
 

    A. Importance
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

    B. Mead and the Chicago School
 
 

        i) The human animal: Reflection, intention & the use of symbols
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

        ii) Symbolic naming creates the Self
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

        iii) Taking the role of the other
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

        iv) Looking-glass selves
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

        v) Self as I vs. self as ME
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

    C. Principal ideas: Summary
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

II. Dramatism

    A. Kenneth Burke
 
 

        i) Action vs. motion
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

        ii) Guilt
 

            a) by the negative
 
 

            b) by the perfection principle
 
 

            c) by social hierarchy
 
 
 

        iii) Guilt & communication
 
 
 
 

        iv) Consubstantiality & identification
 
 

            a) material identification
 
 

            b) idealistic identification
 
 

            c) formal identification
 
 

            d) mystification
 
 

        v) Division
 
 
 
 
 
 

        vi) Burke's method: The dramatistic pentad

            a) act
 
 

            b) agent
 
 

            c) scene
 
 

            d) agency
 
 

            e) purpose
 
 
 
 

III. Narrative Theories

    A. Ernest Bormann
 
 
 
 

        i) Fantasy themes
 
 
 
 

        ii) Rhetorical visions
 
 
 
 

        iii) Fantasy types
 
 
 
 

IV. Exercises

    A. Burkean Analysis of "I have a dream." (Handout in class).