LESSON 2 Flashcards
of the self assumes that human behavior is influenced by group life.
SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
coined the term sociology
Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
means to speak about or word.
logos
.means society, association, togetherness or companionship;
Socios-
In simple definition, is the study of society and culture.
sociology
refers to the social world with all its structures, institution, organizations around us, and specifically to a group of people who live within some type of bounded territory and who share a common way of life.
SOCIETY
is the common way of life shared by a group of people (Stockard, 1997).
CULTURE
argues that in postmodern society, the self is found in the prestige symbols of goods consumed by man.
French sociologist
Baudrillard
the self is not a product of biological predispositions; rather, it is a product of social interactions.
Sociologists like Mead and Cooley,
emphasized the looking- glass self to highlight that the people whom a person interacts become a mirror in which he views himself.
Charles Horton Cooley
Self-identity is achieved through a three-fold event:
- how we present our selves to others
.2. how we analyze how others perceive us.
3. how we create an image of our selves.
argues that the self has two dimensions:
“I” is the subjective element and the active side of the self.
“Me” is the objective element of the self.
Sociologist George Herbert Mead
emphasized the cultural practices of advertising and mass media.
Therefore, the self may be a never-ending search for prestige in the postmodern society.
Sociologist Jean Baudrillard
stated that in modern societies the attainment and stability of self-identity is freely chosen however, problems of alienation and dehumanization of self appear.
Hence, there is a need to discover the “authentic core”.
Gerry Lanuza (2004)
