MODULE 1 TOPIC 2 - The Self, Society, and Culture

Seperate

it means that the self is distinct from other selves.

The self

is always unique and has its own identity.

Consistency

means that a particular self’s traits, characteristics, tendencies,

and potentialities are more or less the same.

Private

means that each person sorts out information, feelings and emotions, and thought processes within the self. This whole process is never accessible to anyone but the self.

Marcel Mauss

According to her every self has two faces

Moi

refers to a person’s sense of who he is, his body, and his basic identity, his

biological givenness.

Personne

is composed of the social concepts of what it means to be who he is.

Language

is another interesting aspect of this social constructivism

Language

it is a salient part of culture and ultimately, has a tremendous effect in our crafting of the self.

Language

If a self is born into a particular society or culture, the self will have to adjust according to its

exposure.

Mead and Vygotsky

For ______and _________, the way that human persons develop is with the use of

language acquisition and interaction with others.

Mead and Vygotsky

Both ________ and ______ treat the human mind as something that is made, constituted through language as experienced in the external world and as encountered in dialogs with others.

kind of family

The ____________ that we are born in, the resources available to us (human, spiritual, economic), and the kind of development that we will have will certainly affect us.

family

It is what a _______ initiates a person to become that serves as the basis for this person’s progress.

Gender

is one of those loci of the self that is subject to alteration, change, and

development.

Gender

has to be personally discovered and asserted and not dictated by culture and the society.