Self, Society, and Culture PDF

The Self, Society , and Culture  Activity By referring to your pictures when you were in elementary , high school, and now that you are in college , list down your salient characteristics that you remember.  Analysis after having examined your “self” in its different stages , answer th...

The Self, Society , and Culture  Activity By referring to your pictures when you were in elementary , high school, and now that you are in college , list down your salient characteristics that you remember.  Analysis after having examined your “self” in its different stages , answer the following: 1. What are the similarities in all stages of my “self”? 2. What are the differences in my “self” across the three stages of my life? 3. What are the possible reasons for the differences in me?  Characteristics of the Self 1. Separate 2. Self contained 3. Independent 4. Consistent 5. Unitary 6. Private  Separate self self is distinct from other selves, unique it has its own identity.  Self – contained and independent its distinctiveness allows to be self contained with its own thoughts, characteristics and volition does not require any other self to exist. In itself it can exist.  Consistent It has a personality that is enduring expected to persist  Unitary center of all experiences and thoughts. The emotion and thoughts processes and converge.  Private Each human person sorts out information, feelings, emotions and thoughts. Isolated from the external world. It lives within its own world. Nature vs. Nurture : The Self of what might be , can be , what it will be.  Social Constructivist theory The view of the person and social context merged. Where the boundaries of one cannot fully be separated from the boundaries of others. (stevens, 1996)  All behavior as it develops passes through the following sequence: 1. control by other 2. Control by self 3. Automatization Self regulation - is a stages of development that lies between the point where the assistance is required from the other people and the point where the regulation is no longer needed it has become automatic.  Self should not be seen as a static entity that stay constant. Self is to be seen as something that is unceasing flux. - constant struggle with external reality. - malleable in dealings with society. Self always in participation with social life its identity subject to influence here and there.  The Self and Culture French Anthropologist Marcel Mauss Every self has two faces. 1. Moi is aperson’s basic identity. A person’ s sense of who she/he is. His biological givenness.  2. Personne composed of social concepts of what it means to be who he /she is. -what it means to live in a particular institution, particular family, particular nationality and how to behave given expectations and influences from others. Social constructivism “ language is important “ An element of culture and has tremendous effect in crafting of the self. This is how it divides and regards differences about the self. Note: A self is born into a particular society o culture, the self will have to adjust according to its exposure.  The self and the development of the world Questions: How people actively produce their social worlds? How do children growing up become social beings? How do twins coming out from the same mother turn out to be different? “ Men and women in their growth and development engage actively in the shaping of the self”. “language” as both publicly shared and privately utilized symbol system is the site where the individual and the social make and remake each other( Schwartz, White and Lutz 1993)  George Mead and Vygotsky The way which human self develop is : 1.the use of language acquisition 2. interaction with others. The human mind is something that is made constituted through language as experienced in the external world and as encountered in dialogs with others.  G. Mead Child conceptualizes notion of the self in two ways: 1. Role play 2. Game stage “I “is different with the “me” self  Self develops thru a real life dialogs (Vygotsky) “Family , caregiver , playmates”  Gender and the self It is an expression and findings one’s identity. Gender self determines how we see ourselves in the world. 1. sex 2. gender  The sense of self that is being taught makes sure that an individual fits a particular environment. Shaped within a particular time and space. Note: Gender has to be personally discovered and asserted and not dictated by culture and society.  The self by eastern philosophy Hinduism Brahman is believed to be the absolute and the ground for all things. Hex is the power to animate , the principle of life Atman, the mere reflection of Brahman.  Application and assessment Answer the following questions. 1. How would you describe yourself? 2. What are the influences of family in your development as an individual? 3. Think of a time when you felt you were “true” self. What made you think you were truly who you are during this time of your life? 4. Can you provide a time when you felt you were not living your “true” self ? Why did you have to live a life like that? What did you do about it? 5. What social pressure help shape your self? Would you have wanted it otherwise? 6. What aspect your self do you think may be changed or would you like it change?  Quiz no. 2 Fill in the blanks with the correct answer. 1. ________ is a person’s biological identity. 2. _______ is a characteristic of the self that it persist and continuously evolving. 3. ______ the product of the socialized self. 4. ______ characteristic of the self , as where the self is the center of all experiences and thoughts. 5. _______is a stages of behavior development that behavior develops passes into three stages.  6. __________ theory hold on the perspective that language is important aspect of self development. 7. _________ he said the self has the I and me aspect. 8. _______ is a social concept that dictates what it really means to be according to behavioral expectations. 9. ______ is a place where people interact communicate and guided by a specific culture. 10. ________ he conceptualized that the self develops in two ways role play and game stage.