According to Mead's The Social Self, Mead claims that self-consciousness (in the sense of awareness of the self) arises only in the presence of conflict that causes disintegration of the organization of habit. Does this imply that, without conflict in social interaction, a person stagnates in his or her existing state?

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Taliyah Bond

Social Studies

18 December, 12:08

According to Mead's The Social Self, Mead claims that self-consciousness (in the sense of awareness of the self) arises only in the presence of conflict that causes disintegration of the organization of habit. Does this imply that, without conflict in social interaction, a person stagnates in his or her existing state?

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Karma Weiss · Answer 1

Yes

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Yes, this implies that without conflict, a person stagnates.

"Where, however, the problem is objectively considered, although the conflict is a social one, it should not resolve itself into a struggle between the selves, but into such a reconstruction of the situation that different and enlarged and more adequate personalities may emerge. A tension should always be centered on the objective social field.