Lesson 2: Socio-Anthropology - The Self as a Product of Modern Society and Culture

A set of fill-in-the-blank flashcards covering key concepts from the lesson on the self as a product of modern society and culture, including nativism vs. empiricism, identity theories, and major sociological theorists.

According to Fucci (2014), nativism emphasizes being born with certain innate traits, while empiricism states that all knowledge is derived from __.

experience

Culture is important in the development of one’s social self is __.

agree

People you do not know do not affect your social self is __.

disagree

One’s behavior is affected by the people around him or her is __.

agree

Social institutions have an influence on people’s lives is __.

agree

People don’t need other people to survive is __.

disagree

Cultural identity refers to the feeling of belongingness to a certain __ group.

culture

The cultural identity theory explains why a person acts and behaves the way he or she does. It explains how an individual is influenced by the cultural contexts in which the individual is __.

situated

National identity is the feeling of belongingness to one state or __.

nation

Rupert Emerson defines national identity as a body of people who feel that they are a __.

nation

Material culture represents culture or nationality (ex. __).

national flag

Non-material culture is the shared understanding of a group such as __, beliefs, language, traditions.

norms

In Mead's theory, the 'I' represents the __ part of the self.

unique, free and subjective

In Mead's theory, the 'ME' represents the __ part of the self.

conventional and objective

GENERALIZED OTHERS refer to an organized community or social group which gives an individual his/her unity of the self; this concept is called __.

Generalized Others

The looking-glass self is a social psychological concept which explains that the self is developed as a result of one's perceptions of other people's __.

opinions

The self is built through social interaction which involves three steps: first, people imagine how they must appear to others; second, they imagine the __ on that appearance; and finally, they develop themselves through the judgment of others.

judgment

Three mental processes: __, Social Identification, and Social Comparison.

Social Categorization

Social Identification is the process where after learning their category, people adopt the identity of the group which they have __ themselves.

categorized

Self-categorization requires the following: Individual self, Relational self, and __ self.

Collective

In the postmodernist view, the self is not the creator of meaning nor the center or starting point of sociological inquiry; the self is also seen as a product of modern discourse that is socially and historically __ conditioned.

conditioned

In traditional society, a person’s status is determined by his or her __; in modern society by his or her achievement; in postmodern society by fashion and style.

role

Goffman's 'impression management' is the process of regulating and controlling information in __ interaction.

social

The self is made up of the various parts that people play, and a key goal is to present their various selves in ways that create and sustain particular __ to different audiences.

impressions

This model assumes that personalities are not static because they change to suit the __.

situation

Kenneth Gergen’s saturated or multiplicities' self involves constant connection to others, absorbing a multitude of voices particularly through the __ and video games.

internet

People construct idealized versions of who they are by selectively representing various aspects of their selves such as __.

self-promotion

Marcel Mauss proposed that every self has two faces: Moi and __.

Personne

Basic aspects that can be taught in the family are language, ways of behaving, attitudes, confronting emotions, and __.

basic manners of conduct