Saturday, December 20, 2008

SOCIAL MIRROR THEORY

'Social mirror theory' holds that we cannot have mirrors in the mind unless there are mirrors in society. The idea was first proposed by Wilhelm Dilthey (1883-1911: in Turner, 1982).

Dilthey argued that it is 'thought's work' to draw out the structural system or meaning implicit in every distinguishable unit of experience (Erlebnis), and that the process of drawing out meaning is not complete until it has been expressed in per formative terms .

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