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Material/economic Self Flashcards

1
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Why does the concept of self change?

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Because of circumstances and influences

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2
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“Idealized people associated with [the good]”

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Symbolism inherent in consumer goods

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3
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“Lifestyle and identity instruction that convey unadulterated marketplace ideologies”

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Consumer culture images

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4
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Symbolic meanings of actual good advertised

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Successful, happy, attractive, and glamorous

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5
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the sociocultural, experiential, symbolic, and ideological aspects of consumption

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Consumer Culture

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6
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how consumers supposedly maximize utility when they decide which products to purchase, or cognitive psychology

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Rational Choice

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is an entity that stands for another entity, and most importantly it can have meaning only to the extent that it has a shared reality among people

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Symbol

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8
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Why a is a fashion designer can only be considered trendy?

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Others share the belief that that is indeed fashionable

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9
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Advertisement in Consumer Culture is based on two concepts which are ?

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Body perfect
Material “good life”

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10
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Ideal identities

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THE “BODY PERFECT” AND THE “GOOD LIFE”

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11
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Strong sociocultural pressure

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Body perfect

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12
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connected with desirable qualities that are not directly related to appearance.

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Halo effect

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13
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“what is beautiful is good”

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Body perfect

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14
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Who said “Beauty is a greater recommendation that any letter of introduction”

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Aristotle, fourth century b.c.

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15
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What is the sociocultural ideal of female beauty?

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Ultra-thinness

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16
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What have been central to the identity of many women and girls?

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Appearance, beauty, and the perfect body

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17
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Affluent lifestyle, studded with expensive consumer goods, possessions, and activities

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Good Life

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18
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Associated with success, control and autonomy

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Good life

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19
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Consumer Culture, through the “Body Perfect” and the Material “Good life” directly and indirectly affects the ___________ __ _________ of an individual

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Concept of identity

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20
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What does advertising in particular abounds with what type of images?

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Ideal identity: good life and body perfect

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21
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Both have associated values, concerning materialism and the ideal body, which individuals internalize to different degrees as part of their ________ ______ ______?

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Personal belief system

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American philosopher and psychologist, a leader of the philosophical movement of pragmatism and a founder of the psychological movement of functionalism.

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William James

23
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famous for helping to found psychology as a formal discipline, for establishing the school of functionalism in psychology, and for greatly advancing the movement of pragmatism in philosophy.

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William James

24
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What are components the William James described?

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Constituents
Self feelings
Self-seeking and preservation

25
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How is the constituent of self composed of?

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Social self
Material self
Spiritual self
Pure ego

26
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Is possessions part of one self?

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Yes

27
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it is clear that between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw . . . a man’s self is the sum total of what he CAN call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, . . . his reputation and works, his land and horses, and bank account . . . If they wax and prosper, he feels triumphant; if they dwindle and die away, he feels cast down.

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A close link between possession and self

28
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Material objects

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Self-extensions

29
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Example of material objects that are self-extensions

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Tools, musical instruments, books, houses, cars, bikes, clothes, and jewellery

30
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Can there be a dividing line between extended self through possessions on one hand and a core self on the other?

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No

31
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Is unintentional loss of one’s possession, should be regarded as a loss or lessening of self?

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Yes

32
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Example of unintentional loss of possession and lessening of one self

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Handbag snatching can produce not only financial but also an emotional,
long-term effects on victims.

33
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What os meaning of material self for William James?

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bodies, clothes, immediate family and home

34
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We are deeply affected by these things because we have put much investment of our self to them.

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bodies, clothes, immediate family and home

35
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as the innermost part.

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Body

36
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essential part of the material self.

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Clothes

37
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hold another great important part of our self

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Family

38
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is where our heart is

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Home

39
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We are directly attached to this commodity that we cannot live without.

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Body

40
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We strive hard to make that this body functions well and do good.

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Body

41
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Why do we have certain preferential attachment or intimate closeness to certain body parts?

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Because od its value to us

42
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What was William James influence to believe that clothes is one essential part of material self?

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“Philosophy of Dress” by Hermann Lotze

43
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Who said this? “any time we bring an object into the surface of our body, we invest that object into the consciousness of our personal existence taking in its contours to be our own making it part of the self.”

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Lotze

44
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What is the effect of fabric and style of clothes we wear?

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Bring sensations and affect our attitudes and behavior

45
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Clothing is a form of ____-_________?

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Self-expression

46
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nearest replica of our self.

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Immediate family

47
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Why do Our parents and siblings hold another great important part of our self.

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What they do or become affects us

48
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Example of what does immediate family do or become that affects us.

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When a member of the family dies a part of ourselves dies too. The success of our parents and siblings is also our success, same with their failures and shame.

49
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It is the earliest nest of our selfhood

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Home

50
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an extension of self because in it we directly connect our self

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Home

51
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Does having investment of self to things made us more more attached to it?

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Yes

52
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If the item of someone you love was left behind by that person as he passed away, do we regard his items in high regard?

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Yes

53
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Does having collection in different degree of investment of self becomes part of the self?

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Yes

54
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Conclusions for material self

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• “we regard our possessions as part of ourselves. We are what we have and what we posses.” (Russel Belk, 1988)
• The possessions that we dearly have tell something about who we are, our self-concept, our past and even our future.

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