The concept that I will be discussing is minding. This comes from George Herbert Meads teaching and his student, Blumer’s third premise of Symbolic Interaction; thought. Minding is defined as, “an inner dialogue used to test alternatives, rehearse actions and anticipate reactions before responding self talk” (Griffin, 2008, p. 62).
The concept of minding is something that I have personally experience and that is why I find it so meaningful. I also believe that many of you have experienced this concept as well. How many times have you said something to someone or found yourself in an awkward situation where you pause to ask yourself the outcomes of different reactions to the situation, before you speak (inner dialogue)? I have done this quite a bit. It’s that point in the conversation where you go, ummm.
I came across a television ad that exemplified my interpretation of the concept minding and would classify this commercial as a great example of minding, one of the concepts of Symbolic Interactionism. It’s the newest Twix commercial and the conversation happens to focus on blogging, how ironic is that. If you haven’t seen the commercial click on the link:
http://www.bloggersblog.com/cgi-bin/bloggersblog.pl?bblog=726082 (Writers Write, Inc. 2008).
If the link doesn’t work please try to copy and paste.
Let me know what you think.
References
Griffin, E. (2008). A First Look At Communication Theory. New York, NY: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Writers Write, Inc. (2008, July 26). Guy gets girl with blogging Twix commericial. Retrieved August 31, 2008, from http://www.bloggersblog.com/cgi-bin/bloggersblog.pl?bblog=726082
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3 comments:
Wow, I viewed that commercial and found it funny but it also made me realize how frequent "minding" comes up in our lives. The commercial was a perfect example about how this principle can be a part of our lives more often than we realize.
I probably use this principle several times per week. As you indicated, minding is defined as “an inner dialogue used to test alternatives, rehearse actions and anticipate reactions before responding self talk” (Griffin, 2008, p. 62).
I find myself talking to myself in my head very often to anticipate what my husband is going to say if I want to suggest we do something that either costs a lot of money or is something he is not going to be interested in pursuing.
I will ask him to go to a bed and breakfast (something he hates doing) but then anticipate his response, change the subject, and change my words to make him want to go, similar on how the guy in the commercial used the words blogging to get the woman to go to his apartment. It might seem manipulative but hey, I believe my husband does the same thing to me when he wants me to watch college sports on tv.
I know what you mean. I usually try to map out dialogue to illicit certain responses and to hopefully continue a conversation so that the other person can think about what to say.
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