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LESSON 2 or her parents like sweeping the The Self from the Sociological floor and Anthropological Perspective George Mead’s Social Self Play Stage: the child playing the - A sociologist who argued roles of others such as acting as a...

LESSON 2 or her parents like sweeping the The Self from the Sociological floor and Anthropological Perspective George Mead’s Social Self Play Stage: the child playing the - A sociologist who argued roles of others such as acting as a that the self is not teacher, soldier, carpenter, etc. biological but social Game Stage: the child comes to Self themselves from the perspective - Something that is of other people developed through social interaction George Mead’s Social Life - Developed as one grows “I” and “Me” Self and ages For Mead, all humans experience - Constructed by directly internal conversation. This engaging in the world conversation involves the I and through interaction and Me, which he called phases of self. through reflection on For him, self is essentially a social those interactions process going on between the I and Me. Self-awareness - Conscious knowledge of The I is the phase of the self that one’s own character, is unsocialized and spontaneous. feelings, motives and It is the acting part of the self, an desires immediate response to other people. It represents the self that Self-image is free and unique. It is the - The idea one has of subjective part of the self. one’s abilities, The Me is the self that results from appearance, and the progressive stages of role personality playing or role-taking and the perspective one assumes to view Role Playing and analyze one's own behaviors. - It is the process in which one takes on the role of It is the organization of the another by putting internalized attitude of others. It oneself in the position of represents the conventional and the person with whom he objective part of the self. or she interacts - Develops a concept of Generalized Others self - Organized community or social group which gives 3 Stages of Development to the individual his or Imitation or Preparatory Stage: her unity of self a child imitates the behavior of his  - Attitude of the entire Multiphrenia refers to the many community different voices speaking about “who we are and what we are” Sociological Charles Horton Cooley’s Looking Protean, a self capable of Glass Self changing constantly to fit the The Looking Glass Self present conditions - A social psychological concept De-centered, a belief that there is - The self is developed as no self at all since the self is a result of one’s constantly being redefined or perception of other undergoing change people’s opinion Self-in-relation means that The self is built through social humans do not live their lives in interaction which involves three isolation but in relation to people steps: and to certain cultural contexts. 1. People imagine how they Mead believes that there is no “I” must appear to others self, that self is shaped by outside 2. They imagine the forces. judgment on that appearance A person’s status is determined 3. They develop themselves by… through the judgment of others Traditional society: by his or her role Postmodern View of the Self Modern society: by his or her Postmodernism achievement - More of a report on the Postmodern society: by fashion or mindset of western style since it changes and people culture in the latter of adapts to these changes or is left the 20th century with identity in question - For French philosopher Michel Foucalt, the self is Dominated by two realities: also seen as a product of 1. The rise of new media modern discourse that is technologies socially and historically 2. The dominance of conditioned (David, consumerism 2002) Lyon (1997) argued that the 4 Basic Postmodernist Ideas predicament of the self in about the Self (Anderson, 1997) postmodern societies is complicated by the advent of electronic-mediated virtual interactions of cyberselves and Cultural Identity the spread of information - The identity or feeling of technology belongingness to a certain culture group Green (1997) posited that the self is digitalized in cyberspace It is an individual’s perception about himself/herself anchored Email and Memory on: race, gender, language, Every little piece of information nationality, ethnicity, religion you post on the internet becomes raw data from which it can be Cultural Identity Theory piece together to create a virtual - Explains why a person identity of who you are. acts and behaves the way he or she does Anthropological - A single person can Cultural Identity and National possess multiple Identity identities, simultaneously Culture making him or her part - Derived from the latin of many cultural groups word “cultura” or “cultus” which means Nation care or cultivation - A group of people built on the premise of shared Personal identity: the way they customs, traditions, see themselves as an individual religion, language, art, history and more Collective identity: the way the see themselves as a member of a National Identity certain group - Identity or feeling of belongingness to one Identity state or nation - “Who the person is” - A body of people who - Qualities and traits of an feel that they are a individual that make him nation. (Rupert Emerson, or her different from POLSCI) others - Socially constructed - Influence and shape by Ways to distinguish people: material and non 1. Geographical context material cultures (based on where they Ex. Material Culture - came from) National flag, emblem 2. People from the west are seal different from the people Non-material culture - from the east norms, beliefs, traditions National Identity requires the process of Self-categorization (one must identify himself/herself with an in-group and differentiate himself/herself from the out-groups) The 3 Fundamental Selves Individual Self - Reflects the cognition related to traits, states, and behaviors that are stored in memory Relational Self - Reflects cognitions that are related to one’s relationships Collective Self - Reflects cognitions that are related to one’s group Identity Struggles (Anthony Wallace and Raymond Fogelson) - Characterizes the discrepancy between the identity a person claims to possess and the identity attributed to that person by others LESSON 3 Pure ego: the most The Self from the Psychological puzzling aspect of the self Perspective William James The feelings and emotion aroused - An american philosopher in the individual because of his or and psychologist her knowledge and appraisal of his or her empirical existence in William James’ Self Theory the world - James divided an individual’s perception of The actions the self prompts - the the self into two effort of every individual to categories: preserve and improve oneself based on one’s self knowledge I: which is responsible for the and resulting self-feelings. thinking and makes awareness and self-awareness possible Carl Me: when he or she makes himself/herself the object of his or her own thinking The self can be contextualized in 3 categories: Constituents of the self to the further subcategories of the self including the material self, social self, spiritual self and pure ego Material Self: consists of one’s body, clothes, family, home and other material possessions that he or she values and regard as his or her own Social Self: connotes the image of an individual in the eyes of the people around him or her which determines his or her reputation in society Spiritual Self: includes one’s thoughts, beliefs, and feelings