L2: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Flashcards
SELF AS PRODUCT OF MODERN SOCIETY
CLIFFORD GEERTZ
CLIFFORD GEERTZ: “THE STRUGGLE FOR ONE’S INDIVIDUALITY IS ONLY POSSIBLE IN MODERN SOCIETY WHERE________________ARE GRADUALLY REPLACED BY __________________ AND__________-; AND THE INTIMATE PERSONAL AFFILIATIONS ARE REPLACED BY EXCEEDINGLY IMPERSONAL ASSOCIATIONS BROUGHT ABOUT BY URBANIZED WAY OF LIFE.”
RELIGIO-THEOLOGICAL TRADITIONS
RATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC CALCULATIONS
IN EARLIER TIMES
LOVE GREW MOSTLY IN THOSE STOLEN SPACES WHERE TRADITION WAS ____________
DEFIED OR CHALLENGED
IN EARLIER TIMES
______________DEFINED EVERYONE’S PLACE IN A GIVEN RELATIONSHIP; THERE WAS NOTHING TO CREATE OR NEGOTIATE
MORALITY
TODAY
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP MUST OFTEN WORK OUT THEIR OWN __________
ETHICS
TODAY OR EARLIER TIMES
-IRON GRIP OF POWER
-CARE FOR OR DOING WHAT IS BEST FOR THE OTHER AND SIMILAR LOVE MOTIVES ARE NOW THE LEGITIMIZING FORMULAE FOR DOMINATION.
TODAY
SELF AS A NECESSARY FICTION (__________)
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
ARE BELIEFS THAT CANNOT BE PROVEN TO BE TRUE AND SOMETIMES CAN BE PROVEN FALSE, BUT ARE, NONETHELESS, NECESSARY TO SUSTAIN LIFE
NECESSARY FICTIONS
THEY ARE___________ BECAUSE THEY CANNOT BE PROVEN.
FICTION
THEY ARE NECESSARY BECAUSE WITHOUT THEM WE WOULD BE RUDDERLESS IN A WORLD CHAOS.
FICTION
-THE SELF IS A SET OF MOVING PARTS, WITH THE MOVEMENT BEING INFORMED BY ONE’S NEED AT ANY GIVEN TIME
SELF AS A NECESSARY FICTION (FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE)
-IN ONE SITUATION WE EXPERIENCE OUR ‘SELF IN THIS WAY. IN ANOTHER SITUATION WE EXPERIENCE OUR ‘SELF DIFFERENTLY.
SELF AS A NECESSARY FICTION (FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE)
SO EACH OF US IS MANY PEOPLE, OR IN RELATIONAL PARLANCE, WE ARE ________
MULTIPLE
IN SELF AS A NECESSARY FICTION (FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE)
THE MANNER IN WHICH WE ORGANIZE OUR MULTIPLICITY SHAPES OUR CHARACTER, WHAT WE CALL ____________
SELF
-SELF IS A NARRATIVE, A TEXT WRITTEN AND REWRITTEN
POST-MODERN VIEW OF THE SELF
-INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DISLOCATES THE SELF, THUS, SELF IS “__________-“ IN CYBERSPACE BY ________
DIGITALIZED
(NICOLA GREEN)
MODERN PROBLEM OF IDENTITY AND POSTMODERN PROBLEM OF IDENTITY BY :
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
-HOW TO CONSTRUCT AN IDENTITY AND KEEP IT SOLID AND STABLE.
MODERN PROBLEM OF IDENTITY
-HOW TO AVOID FIXATION AND KEEP THE OPTIONS OPEN.
POSTMODERN PROBLEM OF IDENTITY
THE SELF AS ARTISTIC CREATION
“THE UNITY OF THE SELF IS NOT SOMETHING THAT IS PREGIVEN TO INDIVIDUALS. IT IS SOMETHING THAT THEY MUST ACCOMPLISH THROUGH________
SELF AS ARTISTIC CREATION NIETZSCHE:
CONSCIOUS EFFORT
A CHALLENGE OF SELF-IDENTITY AMIDST RECOGNITION OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC IDENTITIES WHICH ARE CONSIDERED UNALTERABLE CIRCUMSTANCES.
SELF CREATION AND THE STRUGGLE FOR CULTURAL IDENTITY
________________________________
SEARCH FOR ___________ IS A PRODUCT OF MODERN SOCIETY BUT THIS IS COMPLICATED BY THE SOCIO-CULTURAL SENSIBILITIES OF POSTMODERNITY, NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND GLOBALIZATION. YET THE PROJECT OF SELF CREATION IS EMBEDDED WITHIN IMAGINED COMMUNITIES.
BEYOND SELF-CREATION
SELF IDENTITY
THE SELF CONSTANTLY LIVES IN THIS PARADOX: TO PURSUE SELF CREATION WITHIN PRE-GIVEN, NOT WILLFULLY CHOSEN SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
BEYOND SELF-CREATION
THE _______________ENTAILS THAT INDIVIDUAL SELVES ARE THE PRODUCTS OF SOCIAL INTERACTION AND NOT THE LOGICAL OR BIOLOGICAL PRECONDITIONS OF THAT INTERACTION.
SOCIAL CONCEPTION OF THE SELF
- THE SOCIAL CONCEPTION OF THE SELF ENTAILS THAT INDIVIDUAL SELVES ARE THE PRODUCTS OF SOCIAL INTERACTION AND NOT THE LOGICAL OR BIOLOGICAL PRECONDITIONS OF THAT INTERACTION.
- IT IS NOT INITIALLY THERE AT BIRTH, BUT ARISES IN THE PROCESS OF SOCIAL EXPERIENCE AND ACTIVITY.
- MIND ARISES OUT OF THE SOCIAL ACT OF COMMUNICATION.
BY:
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD OR MEAD AND THE SOCIAL SELF
THREE ACTIVITIES THROUGH WHICH THE SELF IS DEVELOPED:
- LANGUAGE
- PLAY
- GAME
ALLOWS INDIVIDUALS TO TAKE ON THE ‘ROLE OF THE OTHER AND ALLOWS PEOPLE TO RESPOND TO HIS OR HER OWN GESTURES IN TESMS OF THE SYMBOLIZED ATTITUDES OF OTHERS.
LANGUAGE
ALLOWS INDIVIDUALS TO TAKE ON THE ROLES OF OTHER PEOPLE AND PRETEND TO BE THOSE OTHER PEOPLE IN ORDER TO EXPRESS THE EXPECTATIONS OF SIGNIFICANT OTHERS.
PLAY
REQUIRES THE INDIVIDUAL TO INTERNALIZE THE ROLES OF ALL OTHERS WHO ARE INVOLVED WITH HIM OR HER IN THE GAME AND MUST COMPREHEND THE RULES OF THE GAME.
GAME
2 SIDES OF THE SELF
1.THE “ME”
2. THE “I”
- REPRESENTS THE EXPECTATIONS AND ATTITUDES OF OTHERS ( THE GENERALIZED OTHER)
- IT REPRESENTS THE LEARNED BEHAVIOR, ATTITUDES, AND EXPECTATIONS OF OTHERS AND SOCIETY
1.THE “ME”
- CAN BE CONSIDERED THE PRESENT AND FUTURE PHASE OF THE SELF
- REPRESENTS THE INDIVIDUAL’S IDENTITY BASED ON THE RESPONSE TO THE “ME”
THE “I”
