Module 9

Question 1

focuses on how people maintain extensions of themselves through material possessions and the maintenance of particular lifestyles.

Answer 1

Materialistic Self

Question 2

made up of everything that a person owns like his or her car, house, clothes, even her family and friends

Answer 2

Material self

Question 3

which is concerned with how things serve a practical purpose.

Answer 3

Utility

Question 4

tells us the meaning assigned to the object. It is also concerned with how objects become powerful symbols or icons of habit and ritual which can be quite separate from their primary function

Answer 4

Significance

Question 5

is primarily about our bodies, cloth, immediate family, and home. We are deeply affected by these things because we have put much investment of ourselves into them

Answer 5

James (material Self)

Question 6

The components of this are composed of the intimate parts of the person that includes our body’s aspects such as physical (arms head, legs, etc), emotional (feelings, desires, etc), psychological (intelligence, cognition, etc), and moral (values, beliefs, etc).

Answer 6

The bodily self

Question 7

It includes the people of great significance to us (family), possessions (house, car, clothes), places that matter to us, products of our labor (job, handworks, etc).

Answer 7

The extended self

Question 8

are basic requirements for you to survive, such as a cozy home, basic clothes to wear, and daily food. They are indispensable and remain constant over time. As part of enriching ourselves, education

Answer 8

Needs

Question 9

are desires that may change as time progresses. They apply to goods, services, and inessential things often described as splurges. From an economist’s point of view, wants are created by businesses that may add convenience to a customer’s life

Answer 9

Wants

Question 10

which is being referred to as the thinking self, is the one reflecting the soul of a person or the mind which is also called the pure ego. It is characterized to have intuition and being able to discern things for an individual to come up with a particular decision.

Answer 10

I-self

Question 11

is said to be the empirical self which refers to the person’s individual experiences and is divided into sub-categories: the material self, social self and spiritual self.

Answer 11

Me-Self

Question 12

Material self according to james is about…

Answer 12

our bodies, cloth, immediate family, and home. We are deeply affected by these things because we have put much investment of ourselves into them.

Question 13

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 this contours to be our own and making it part of the self.”

Answer 13

Watsons (2014) Microcosmus

Question 14

Philosophy of Dress

Answer 14

Herman Lotze

Question 15

Our parents and siblings hold another great important part of our self. What they do or become affects us. When an immediate family member dies, part of ourselves dies, too. When their lives are in success, we feel their victories as if we are the ones holding the trophy. In their failures, we are put to shame or guilt. When they are in a disadvantaged situation, there is an urgent urge to help as a voluntary instinct of saving themselves self from danger. We place huge investments in our immediate family when we see them as the nearest replica of our self

Answer 15

Immediate Family

Question 16

is where our heart is. It is the earliest nest of our selfhood. Our experiences inside the home were recorded and marked on particular parts and things in our home. There was an old cliché about rooms: “if only walls can speak.” The home thus is an extension of self, because, in it, we can directly connect ourselves.

Answer 16

Home

Question 17

“a man’s self is the sum total of all what he can call his.”

Answer 17

James (1890)

Question 18

defined as spending for the acquisition of utility, is a major concept in economics and is also studied in many other social sciences. It is seen in contrast to investing, which is spending for the acquisition of future incom

Answer 18

Consumption

Question 19

“Consume” is defined as “use up, to spend wastefully, to destroy”

Answer 19

Gusdorf

Question 20

is a symbolic idea. It is an image we build for ourselves through social interaction

Answer 20

Mach 1993

Question 21

an economic and social ideology and order that encourages consumption or acquisition of goods/services in a never-ending cycle.

Answer 21

Consumerism

Question 22

posits that “…we regard our possessions as part of ourselves. We are what we have and what we possess.” The identification of the self to things started in our infancy stage when we make a distinction among self and environment and others who may desire our possessions.

Answer 22

Russel Belk (1988)

Question 23

posits that “…we regard our possessions as part of ourselves. We are what we have and what we possess.” The identification of the self to things started in our infancy stage when we make a distinction among self and environment and others who may desire our possessions.

Answer 23

russel Belk

Question 24

revealed that when people organize their lives around extrinsic goals such as product acquisition, they report greater unhappiness in relationships, poorer moods, and more psychological problems

Answer 24

The high price of materialism