Okay, I have mostly forgotten, what I was thinking at that time. But I guess it must have been something like this:
Society is composed of individuals. Each individual has a mental image of society. This image include conclusions based on observations of actions and words of other individuals. The mental image derives what actions and words are to be produced. Therefore, the mental image incorporates indirectly the mental images of others. and so on...
Yes, it must have been something like that. I still feel that there is a model or an image of reality in each actor's mind. Each actor also knows that there is an image of reality in other actors' minds. This knowledge may be explicit or implicit. So this internal image is based on observations, inferences, and insights.
Also the lines indicate interactions or relations, mostly interactions. So, a model is influenced only by those models that come in contact with it. Different people will react differently (say or act differently) to the same circumstances (though it can be argued that the circumstances can not be replicated). The dots probably represent individuals, M stand for models, and the numbers are action choices. why the same action choices are available to different individuals is not clear.
Okay, it seems like symbolic interactionism: Individuals 'socialize' by observing, listening to and 'making sense' of their environment which includes others and objects. I feel action choices should not be enumerated. Only in some restricted sense they may be. for example to conform or not to.
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Okay, I have mostly forgotten, what I was thinking at that time. But I guess it must have been something like this:
Society is composed of individuals.
Each individual has a mental image of society.
This image include conclusions based on observations of actions and words of other individuals.
The mental image derives what actions and words are to be produced.
Therefore, the mental image incorporates indirectly the mental images of others.
and so on...
Yes, it must have been something like that. I still feel that there is a model or an image of reality in each actor's mind. Each actor also knows that there is an image of reality in other actors' minds. This knowledge may be explicit or implicit. So this internal image is based on observations, inferences, and insights.
Also the lines indicate interactions or relations, mostly interactions. So, a model is influenced only by those models that come in contact with it. Different people will react differently (say or act differently) to the same circumstances (though it can be argued that the circumstances can not be replicated). The dots probably represent individuals, M stand for models, and the numbers are action choices. why the same action choices are available to different individuals is not clear.
Okay, it seems like symbolic interactionism: Individuals 'socialize' by observing, listening to and 'making sense' of their environment which includes others and objects. I feel action choices should not be enumerated. Only in some restricted sense they may be. for example to conform or not to.
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