ANDRE SETYAWAN FARIZKI
08.05.1.1.1.00025
08.05.1.1.1.00025
SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM APPLICATION INSIDE THE PASSAGE ENTITLED EGG BY PUTU WIJAYA
INTRODUCTION
Egg, as the title of the passage is really simple thing if we only think it physically. We have to know that egg itself has many great philosophy behind it. Egg is an element of this nature who has great purposes for our life. One more thing that the phisically composition of egg can give us many philosophy, we have to know that.
ANALYSIS
In this case, we have to make an analysis about the passage entitled Egg by Putu Wijaya. But, at first we have to choose the one good theory to analyze this passage. In my opinion, we can use the only one theory to analyze this passage, we can use theory of Symbolics Interactionism. We have to know this theory based on Herbert Blumer. Symbolics Interactionism theory which written by Herbert Blumer in his famous book entitled ”Symbolic Interactionism; Perspective, and Method” that there are three assumption which covering the human act, they are:
1) Human being act toward things on the basic of the meaning that the things have for them;
2) The meaning of the things arises out of the social interaction one with one’s fellow;
3)The meaning of things are handled in and modified through an interpretative process used
by the person in dealing with the thing he encounters.
Based on the passage entitled Egg by Putu Wijaya we can see the situation inside the passage itself. I think that the most suitable point is the first point of the theory above which same with everything happened inside the passage. But, the second and the third are also has a relationship with the passage and I just want to focused on the first point.
I will explain more simple the first point of theory above. It means that the human is do an act to some thing (it can be a thing, events, even phenomena) based on a meaning which owned by that thing, events, or that phenomena for them. Each people have a respond to the symbolic situation. They are respond to the environment, included also physical object (thing) and social object (human act or human behavior) based on the meaning which contain that component for them.
Before we talk too far about this thing, let’s we talk about about the composition of egg itself. I mean physically composition. I think it’s really simple if we observe or see to the shape of egg itself. It’s really simple logic I think, egg has some parts of its phisically. All of the parts are like the cover and the content. In the function, the cover has a function to protect the content of the egg. But, the sophisticated part of the egg is only contain in the inner part of the egg, inside the egg is the special part which called embryo, the cover protect the embryo of the egg. But, if we correlate it with our life it’s about philosopical of life.
I really think that egg has many philosophy behind it if we understand or interpreting based on statement of Putu Wijaya’s passage that “An egg is an embryo of life”. Even our president who lead our country right now was originated or exist in shape named embryo inside (kandungan ibu). All of creature in this nature was come from embrio before become the real creature who live in this world as the other usual creatures. Every people in this world there is no exception that they are all of people all over the world are origin from an embryo before become the real human like nowadays. Embryo is thing that can grow and grow which finally become new thing which can give purpose or function in our life.
Our mind inside our brain also we can said as embryo. The way of children think about something is really different with adult people. But, it doesn’t mean that children can’t make or own mind of something like adult people. The children has to pass so many-many process, all of that process can be got as fast as the growth of that children, so physically (body) and mind (brain) can grow together or (sejalan). When children has grow and become adult people, at that time we can said that their brain has the real function to give contribution, not only an organ of body but great investment which can earn new thing like invention, money, philosophy. Brain can earn everything, like Plato said that “Cogito Ergo Sum” which the meaning is “I think and I exist”. Ok, in this case we can know that brain is same with embryo inside egg which can grow and grow until finally earn new thing or something which has great purpose or function for our life. Inside the passage all people are asked to think, think, and think. Because at that period there is an crisis of think, people think creative, philosopically, and revolutianairy were less and less. The example is they just think about an egg phisically without correlate it with some philosophy inside it.
More and more about embryo, let’s we make an analogy between head and egg. Simple logic just said they are really different. But, if we can think more sophisticated and more detail about function they are same in phisically purpose. Inside egg there is an embryo and inside our head there is a brain. Embryo can grow physically and earn new thing or new creature who can give many purpose or function in our life. Brain also can grow physically but there is limitation of size and not hatch like embryo inside egg. Our brain can grow phisically until a limit of periodical age, from children brain become adult people brain. After that the brain can’t grow physically again, but what will grow after this kind of process? It’s the time for the mind or ability to think to grow up become better and better, our mind inside our brain is same with embryo which can grow and finally earn something, we think inside our brain and finally earn something like theory which can be functionable until whenever, solution to overcome a problem, even sophisticated problem. This passage by use an egg as the symbol wanted to let us think, think, and think. Because our mind can be great thing which can bring a change to the better condition for all of people all over the world, especially for all of people who were live at the period inside the passage.
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This paragraph will bring the theory I used above in Indonesian language so that it can be easier to understood.
Di dalam bukunya yang amat terkenal, yaitu ”Symbolic Interactionism; Perspective, and Method,” Herbert Blumer menegaskan bahwa ada tiga asumsi yang mendasari tindakan manusia. Tiga asumsi tersebut adalah sebagai berikut:
1)Human being act toward things on the basic of the meaning that the things have for them;
2)The meaning of the things arises out of the social interaction one with one’s fellow;
3)The meaning of things are handled in and modified through an interpretative process used
by the person in dealing with the thing he encounters.
Premis pertama sampai ketiga itu mempunyai pengertian seperti ini.Pertama, bahwa manusia itu bertindak terhadap sesuatu (apakah itu benda, kejadian, maupun fenomena tertentu) atas makna yang dimiliki oleh benda, kejadian, atau fenomena itu bagi mereka. Individu merespon suatu situasi simbolik. Mereka merespon lingkungan, termasuk objek fisik (benda) dan objek sosial (perilaku manusia) berdasarkan makna yang dikandung komponen tersebut bagi mereka.
Kedua, makna tadi diberikan oleh manusia sebagai hasil interaksi dengan sesamanya. Jadi, makna tadi tidak inherent, tidak terlekat pada benda ataupun fenomenanya itu sendiri, melainkan tergantung pada orang-orang yang terlibat dalam interaksi itu. Makna dinegosiasikan melalui penggunaan bahasa. Negosiasi itu dimungkinkan karena manusia mampu menamai segala sesuatu, bukan hanya objek fisik, tindakan, atau peristiwa (bahkan tanpa kehadiran objek fisik, tindakan, atau peristiwa itu) namun juga gagasan yang abstrak. Akan tetapi, nama atau simbol yang digunakan untuk menandai objek, tindakan, peristiwa, atau gagasan itu bersifat arbitrer (sembarang). Melalui penggunaan simbol itulah manusia dapat berbagi pengalaman dan pengetahuan tentang dunia.
Ketiga, makna tadi ditangani dan dimodifikasi melalui proses interpretasi dalam rangka menghadapi fenomena tertentu lainnya. Makna yang diinterpretasikan individu dapat berubah dari waktu ke waktu, sejalan dengan perubahan situasi yang ditemukan dalam interaksi sosial. Perubahan interpretasi dimungkinkan karena individu dapat melakukan proses mental, yakni berkomunikasi dengan dirinya sendiri.
Kesimpulan utama yang perlu diambil dari substansi teori interaksionisme simbolik adalah sebagai berikut. Kehidupan bermasyarakat itu terbentuk melalui proses komunikasi dan interaksi antarindividu dan antarkelompok dengan menggunakan simbol-simbol yang dipahami maknanya melalui proses belajar. Tindakan seseorang dalam proses interaksi itu bukan semata-mata merupakan suatu tanggapan yang bersifat langsung terhadap stimulus yang datang dari lingkungannya atau dari luar dirinya, melainkan dari hasil sebuah proses interpretasi terhadap stimulus. Jadi jelas, bahwa hal ini merupakan hasil proses belajar, dalam arti memahami simbol-simbol, dan saling menyesuaikan makna dari simbol-simbol tersebut. Meskipun norma-norma, nilai-nilai sosial dan makna dari simbol-simbol itu memberikan pembatasan terhadap tindakannya, namun dengan kemampuan berpikir yang dimilikinya, manusia mempunyai kebebasan untuk menentukan tindakan dan tujuan-tujuan yang hendak dicapainya.
“There is a ‘minding’process that interveness between stimulus and response. It is this mental process, and not simply the stimulus, that determines how a man will react (Ritzer, 1980:194)”
ANALYSIS
In this case, we have to make an analysis about the passage entitled Egg by Putu Wijaya. But, at first we have to choose the one good theory to analyze this passage. In my opinion, we can use the only one theory to analyze this passage, we can use theory of Symbolics Interactionism. We have to know this theory based on Herbert Blumer. Symbolics Interactionism theory which written by Herbert Blumer in his famous book entitled ”Symbolic Interactionism; Perspective, and Method” that there are three assumption which covering the human act, they are:
1) Human being act toward things on the basic of the meaning that the things have for them;
2) The meaning of the things arises out of the social interaction one with one’s fellow;
3)The meaning of things are handled in and modified through an interpretative process used
by the person in dealing with the thing he encounters.
Based on the passage entitled Egg by Putu Wijaya we can see the situation inside the passage itself. I think that the most suitable point is the first point of the theory above which same with everything happened inside the passage. But, the second and the third are also has a relationship with the passage and I just want to focused on the first point.
I will explain more simple the first point of theory above. It means that the human is do an act to some thing (it can be a thing, events, even phenomena) based on a meaning which owned by that thing, events, or that phenomena for them. Each people have a respond to the symbolic situation. They are respond to the environment, included also physical object (thing) and social object (human act or human behavior) based on the meaning which contain that component for them.
Before we talk too far about this thing, let’s we talk about about the composition of egg itself. I mean physically composition. I think it’s really simple if we observe or see to the shape of egg itself. It’s really simple logic I think, egg has some parts of its phisically. All of the parts are like the cover and the content. In the function, the cover has a function to protect the content of the egg. But, the sophisticated part of the egg is only contain in the inner part of the egg, inside the egg is the special part which called embryo, the cover protect the embryo of the egg. But, if we correlate it with our life it’s about philosopical of life.
I really think that egg has many philosophy behind it if we understand or interpreting based on statement of Putu Wijaya’s passage that “An egg is an embryo of life”. Even our president who lead our country right now was originated or exist in shape named embryo inside (kandungan ibu). All of creature in this nature was come from embrio before become the real creature who live in this world as the other usual creatures. Every people in this world there is no exception that they are all of people all over the world are origin from an embryo before become the real human like nowadays. Embryo is thing that can grow and grow which finally become new thing which can give purpose or function in our life.
Our mind inside our brain also we can said as embryo. The way of children think about something is really different with adult people. But, it doesn’t mean that children can’t make or own mind of something like adult people. The children has to pass so many-many process, all of that process can be got as fast as the growth of that children, so physically (body) and mind (brain) can grow together or (sejalan). When children has grow and become adult people, at that time we can said that their brain has the real function to give contribution, not only an organ of body but great investment which can earn new thing like invention, money, philosophy. Brain can earn everything, like Plato said that “Cogito Ergo Sum” which the meaning is “I think and I exist”. Ok, in this case we can know that brain is same with embryo inside egg which can grow and grow until finally earn new thing or something which has great purpose or function for our life. Inside the passage all people are asked to think, think, and think. Because at that period there is an crisis of think, people think creative, philosopically, and revolutianairy were less and less. The example is they just think about an egg phisically without correlate it with some philosophy inside it.
More and more about embryo, let’s we make an analogy between head and egg. Simple logic just said they are really different. But, if we can think more sophisticated and more detail about function they are same in phisically purpose. Inside egg there is an embryo and inside our head there is a brain. Embryo can grow physically and earn new thing or new creature who can give many purpose or function in our life. Brain also can grow physically but there is limitation of size and not hatch like embryo inside egg. Our brain can grow phisically until a limit of periodical age, from children brain become adult people brain. After that the brain can’t grow physically again, but what will grow after this kind of process? It’s the time for the mind or ability to think to grow up become better and better, our mind inside our brain is same with embryo which can grow and finally earn something, we think inside our brain and finally earn something like theory which can be functionable until whenever, solution to overcome a problem, even sophisticated problem. This passage by use an egg as the symbol wanted to let us think, think, and think. Because our mind can be great thing which can bring a change to the better condition for all of people all over the world, especially for all of people who were live at the period inside the passage.
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This paragraph will bring the theory I used above in Indonesian language so that it can be easier to understood.
Di dalam bukunya yang amat terkenal, yaitu ”Symbolic Interactionism; Perspective, and Method,” Herbert Blumer menegaskan bahwa ada tiga asumsi yang mendasari tindakan manusia. Tiga asumsi tersebut adalah sebagai berikut:
1)Human being act toward things on the basic of the meaning that the things have for them;
2)The meaning of the things arises out of the social interaction one with one’s fellow;
3)The meaning of things are handled in and modified through an interpretative process used
by the person in dealing with the thing he encounters.
Premis pertama sampai ketiga itu mempunyai pengertian seperti ini.Pertama, bahwa manusia itu bertindak terhadap sesuatu (apakah itu benda, kejadian, maupun fenomena tertentu) atas makna yang dimiliki oleh benda, kejadian, atau fenomena itu bagi mereka. Individu merespon suatu situasi simbolik. Mereka merespon lingkungan, termasuk objek fisik (benda) dan objek sosial (perilaku manusia) berdasarkan makna yang dikandung komponen tersebut bagi mereka.
Kedua, makna tadi diberikan oleh manusia sebagai hasil interaksi dengan sesamanya. Jadi, makna tadi tidak inherent, tidak terlekat pada benda ataupun fenomenanya itu sendiri, melainkan tergantung pada orang-orang yang terlibat dalam interaksi itu. Makna dinegosiasikan melalui penggunaan bahasa. Negosiasi itu dimungkinkan karena manusia mampu menamai segala sesuatu, bukan hanya objek fisik, tindakan, atau peristiwa (bahkan tanpa kehadiran objek fisik, tindakan, atau peristiwa itu) namun juga gagasan yang abstrak. Akan tetapi, nama atau simbol yang digunakan untuk menandai objek, tindakan, peristiwa, atau gagasan itu bersifat arbitrer (sembarang). Melalui penggunaan simbol itulah manusia dapat berbagi pengalaman dan pengetahuan tentang dunia.
Ketiga, makna tadi ditangani dan dimodifikasi melalui proses interpretasi dalam rangka menghadapi fenomena tertentu lainnya. Makna yang diinterpretasikan individu dapat berubah dari waktu ke waktu, sejalan dengan perubahan situasi yang ditemukan dalam interaksi sosial. Perubahan interpretasi dimungkinkan karena individu dapat melakukan proses mental, yakni berkomunikasi dengan dirinya sendiri.
Kesimpulan utama yang perlu diambil dari substansi teori interaksionisme simbolik adalah sebagai berikut. Kehidupan bermasyarakat itu terbentuk melalui proses komunikasi dan interaksi antarindividu dan antarkelompok dengan menggunakan simbol-simbol yang dipahami maknanya melalui proses belajar. Tindakan seseorang dalam proses interaksi itu bukan semata-mata merupakan suatu tanggapan yang bersifat langsung terhadap stimulus yang datang dari lingkungannya atau dari luar dirinya, melainkan dari hasil sebuah proses interpretasi terhadap stimulus. Jadi jelas, bahwa hal ini merupakan hasil proses belajar, dalam arti memahami simbol-simbol, dan saling menyesuaikan makna dari simbol-simbol tersebut. Meskipun norma-norma, nilai-nilai sosial dan makna dari simbol-simbol itu memberikan pembatasan terhadap tindakannya, namun dengan kemampuan berpikir yang dimilikinya, manusia mempunyai kebebasan untuk menentukan tindakan dan tujuan-tujuan yang hendak dicapainya.
“There is a ‘minding’process that interveness between stimulus and response. It is this mental process, and not simply the stimulus, that determines how a man will react (Ritzer, 1980:194)”
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