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The Anthropology and Sociological View of Self Lesson 2  What is Sociology? A scientific study of social group and human relationship generates...

The Anthropology and Sociological View of Self Lesson 2  What is Sociology? A scientific study of social group and human relationship generates new insights into the interconnectedness between self and other people. BEST FOR You 2 O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y  What is Sociology? Is the study of society, pattern of social relationship, social interaction and culture of everyday life. BEST FOR You 3 O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y What is Anthropology? Anthropology is the study of what makes us human. Anthropologists take a broad approach to understanding the many different aspects of the human experience, which we call holism. BEST FOR You 4 O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y What is Anthropology? They consider the past, through archaeology, to see how human groups lived hundreds or thousands of years ago and what was important to them. BEST FOR You 5 O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y What is Anthropology? They consider what makes up our biological bodies and genetics, as well as our bones, diet, and health. Anthropologists also compare humans with other to see what we have in common with them and what makes us unique. BEST FOR You O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y 6 BEST FOR You 7 O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y  WHAT IS SELF? The self, in contemporary literature, is defined by the following characteristics: Separate, self-contained, independent, consistent, unitary and private” (Stevens, 1996) BEST FOR You 8 O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y BEST FOR You 9 O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y  JON Professor in Private Catholic School - strict and serious Sweet and clingy husband to his wife, Jane Disciplinarian father of two children All smile and charismatic to churchmates BEST FOR You 10 O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y  Hypocrite? Multiple Personality Disorder? NO It is normal, acceptable and expected to shift our Plastic? self to fit into any circumstances and to adapt to his social BEST FOR You O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y situation. 11  THE SELF AND CULTURE 2 Faces of the Self according to French anthropologist Marcel Mauss » Moi – refers to a person’s sense of who he/she is, his body, and his/her basic identity, his/her biological givenness. A person’s basic identity » Personne – is composed of the social concepts of what it means to be who he is. Such as what it means to live in a particular institution, family, religion, nationality, and how to behave given expectations and influences from others BEST FOR You 12 O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y  THE SELF AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIAL WORLD » More than a person’s givenness, one is believed to be in active participation in the shaping of the self » Language is another aspect of social contructivism BEST FOR You 13 O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y MEAD AND VYGOTSKY For George Herbert Mead and Lev Vygostky, the way that human persons develop is with the use of language acquisition and interaction with others. The way we process information is normally form of an internal dialogue in our head Treated the human mind as something that is made, constituted through language as experienced in the external world and as encountered dialogs with others MEAD AND VYGOTSKY Mead saw this on children’s conceptualization of the self through “role plays” and their scripts Vygotsky saw children’s conceptualization of the self through real life dialogs with family, caregiver, or playmate SORRY NA NGA EH, PERO DI AKO SOSORRY  SELF IN FAMILIES » Sociologists focus on the different institutions and powers at play in the society. Among these, the most prominent is FAMILY » Disposition from the child’s parents’ genes and general condition of life, the impact of one’s family is still deemed as a given in understanding the self BEST FOR You 17 O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y  SELF IN FAMILIES » The kind of family, the resources available, and the kind of development will certainly affect us » Human beings are born virtually helpless » dependency period of a human baby to its parents for nurturing is relatively longer than most other animals BEST FOR You 18 O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y  SELF IN FAMILIES » Learning therefore is critical in our capacity to actualize potential of becoming humans » Babies internalize ways and styles that they observe from their family » Internalizing behavior may either be conscious or unconscious » Without a family, biologically and sociologically, a person may not even survive or become a human person BEST FOR You 19 O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y  GENDER AND THE SELF » Gender is one of those loci of the self that is subject to alteration, change, and development » It is important to give one the leeway to find, express, and live his identity BEST FOR You 20 O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y  GENDER AND THE SELF Sonia Tolstoy, the wife of the famous Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, wrote when she was twenty-one “I am nothing but a miserable crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness, and a big belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which nobody wants and which nearly drives me insane”. BEST FOR You 21 O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y  GENDER AND THE SELF A few years later she wrote “it makes me laugh to read over this diary. It’s so full of contradictions, and one would think that I was such an unhappy woman. Yet is there a happier woman than I?” (Tolstoy 1975) The account illustrates that our gender partly determines how we see ourselves in the world BEST FOR You 22 O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y  NANCY CHODOROW …argues that because mothers take the role of taking care of children, there is a tendency for girls to imitate the same and reproduce same kind of mentality. BEST FOR You 23 O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y  Often times society forces a particular identity unto us depending on our sex and/or gender The gendered self is then shaped with in a particular context of time and space. The notion that an individual should fit in a particular environment is dangerous and detrimental in the goal of truly finding one’s self BEST FOR You 24 O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y  Gender has to be personally discovered and asserted and not dictated by the culture and society BEST FOR You 25 O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y