2 social self
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SOCIAL SELFPresented by:Mary Anne A. Portuguez, MP, RPm
WHAT IS SELF?
Self is defined as a symbol using individual who can reflect upon his/her own behavior (Franzio, 1996).It covers three things: Body, Social Identity, and Self
It is associated with self-concept and identity. Self- concept, a collection of beliefs about one’s basic nature, unique qualities, and typical behavior.
MORE DEFINITIONS ON SELF-CONCEPT
Individual’s sense of identity, the set of beliefs about what he/she like as an individual (Feldman, 1998).
Product of experience and as a result of the individual growth process and his personal-social development (Apruebo, 2005).
DEFINITION OF IDENTITY
Social identity, composed of interpersonal roles and traits, a particular conception of potentiality and a structure of values and priorities.
It recognizes individuals, categories, and types of individuals in terms of race, class, and ethnicity.
IDENTITY CATEGORIES
Social Identity, used to describe identification based on first appearances.
Personal Identity, it refers to biographical details of a given named individual.
Ego, Self, or Felt Identity, it describes the self-feelings of the individual; the subjective sense of meaning the person gives to his or her personal situation.
CLASSICAL THEORIES OF SELF
SELF THEORY BY WILLIAM JAMES
It outlined the dimensions of the mature self, and contended the things become part of the self via emotional identification.
Differentiate the subjective “I” and the objective “me”
THREE ASPECTS OF “ME”
Spiritual me. One’s own understanding of selves as creatures who think, feel, act, and experience life.
Social me. It consists of the recognition that the self can get from others. James believed that people have several social me’s.
Material me. It consists of one’s body, valued possessions, and loved ones. It identifies the self most clearly in terms of material possessions.
SELF THEORY BY GEORGE HERBET MEAD
It outlined how the self develops and contended that it was largely a cognitive process, brought about through symbolic interaction and role-taking.
The “I” is the spontaneous actor while “me” is the self as seen from the imagined perspective others.
ELEMENTS OF SELF BY DAVID MYERS
THE SELF
SELF-CONCEPTWho am I?
SELF ESTEEMMy sense of self-worth
SELF-KNOWLEDGEHow can I explain and
predict myself?
SOCIAL SELFMy roles as a student family member, and
friend; my group identity
SELF-CONCEPT
It was viewed as product of experience and as a result of the individual growth process and his personal-social development.
Self-schema is a belief about the self that organizes and guides the processing of self relevant information. It summarizes the personality traits, attitudes, values, interests, and other characteristics that people attribute to themselves.
Social information refers to influences how a person perceives, thinks, or evaluates in both oneself and others.
Self-concept involves self-reference effect and possible selves as important self-psychological concepts.
Self-reference effect, tendency to process efficiently and remember well information related to oneself.
Possible selves, images of what people dream or dread becoming in the future.
SELF-CONCEPT
SELF-KNOWLEDGE
Accepted ways in achieving self-fulfillment, and the perceived relationship between the self and society.
SELF-KNOWLEDGE
TIME PERIOD WAYS OF ACHIEVING SELF-KNOWLEDGE
WAYS OF REACHING SELF-FULFILLMENT
RELATIONSHIP BET. SOCIETY AND SELF
Late Medieval (pre 16th Century)
No problem. Self is fixed by society.
Salvation will be in heaven
Individual is an integral part of the “Great chain
of being”Early Modern (16th – 18th
Century)Self may change other people may have two
selves
Primary salvation will be in heaven
Relationship individual may move up or down
the chain of beingPuritan (18th- 19th
Century)Self-conscious
introspection; self-deception is possible
Salvation predetermined but
individual must struggle against inner sin and
weaknesses
Society recognizes individual as saved if he
is successful at work
Victorian (mid-19th Century)
Repression, hypocrisy, concern with
involuntary self-disclosure
Seek fulfillment alone and through private
family life
Individual exists side by side with or may try to
improve society
Early 20th Century Complete self-knowledge is recognized as
impossible
Work is not fulfilling. Society prevents self-
fulfillment.
Individual is hostile to and critical to society.
Know thyself.
Socrates
SELF-ESTEEM
It refers to a person’s overall self-evaluation or sense of self-worth. It is totally of self-schemas and possible selves.
SOCIAL SELF
It is surrounded by the person’s social roles, social identities, social comparisons, successes and failures, social judgment, and the surrounding culture.
SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
Herbert Blumer originally exhorts symbolic interaction as sociological and social psychological approach.
It plays a vital role to describe self, attitude, motive, gender, and emotion.
STAGES OF SELF-DEVELOPMENT BY G. MEAD
Preparatory Stage. No role taking, no self. Play Stage. Children adopt only one role at a
time. Game Stage. Children learn to take the role of
many others.
INFLUENCES OF SOCIAL SELF
Social roles Social identities Social comparisons Successes and Failures Social judgment Surrounding culture
SELF-PERCEPTION THEORY BY DARYL BEM
Suggests that people come to be aware of their own dispositions, emotions, attitudes, and other internal states in the same way they learn about other people via observation of behavior.
SELF-DISCREPANCY THEORY
It states mismatching of self-perceptions. Tory Higgins pointed out individuals who possess three
types of self-perceptions:Actual self, the qualities people believe they actually possess.Ideal self, the characteristics people would like them to have.Ought self, the traits people believed that they should possess.
SELF-ATTRIBUTION BY FRITZ HEIDER
It refers to inferences that people draw about the causes of their own behavior.
Internal attribution, the process of assigning the cause of behaviour to some internal characteristic, rather than to outside forces.
External attribution, the process of assigning the cause of behaviour to some situation or event outside a person's control rather than to some internal characteristic.
SELF-AWARENESS
A psychological state in which one takes oneself as an object of attention. The self is a target of attention and contemplation. Two types:
Private self-awareness. A psychological state in which one is aware of one’s hidden private self-aspects.
Public self-awareness. A psychological state in which one is aware of one’s public self aspects.