personal and social identity Flashcards

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Development of personality, self awareness, and self concept

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Self awareness > sense of self >personality

Self concept - Mead
I and me

I foundation
Personal sense of who we are

Me - product os social interaction
Internalising roles and responsibilities through socialisation

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Development of identity and social self + theorists

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Social self - time an individual understand their own identity is seperate from someone else

theorists
jean piaget - cognition
Theory of Cognitive development

4 stages
S
P
CO
FO

Sensorimotor - fine motor skills - pick up objects
Preoperational - learning numbers letter
Concrete operational - begin thinking logically and abstractly
Formal operational - logical abstract thinking and reasoning

Deferred gratification
Children - cant wait
Adolescence - can
object permeance

Introspection.
Spatial awareness

carol gillian - morality
Morality + gender
Men - justice
women - compassion

Pre-conventional stage - selfishness
Conventional stage - self sacrifice + truth
Post conventional stage- non violence

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influence of agents of socialisation on personal and social identity

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Socialisation - the process an individual becomes a functioning member of society by internalising the roles, norms and values

Family and kinship
Primary socialisation
Example

Birth order - Daniel Eckstein
Oldest - high achievers + strong motivators
Middle - sociable peace keepers - mediators + compromise
Youngest - empathetic + popular - reflective and absentminded

Gender
Socially constructed differences between men and women

Gender roles
Private vs public sector
“The second sex”
othered - viewed as inferior

Beliefs
Set of options conviction in which we believe as the truth

Religion - shapes our identity
Values
Way of life and traditions

Muslims celebrate eid al fitr and eid al ahda and fast during the holy month of ramadan

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nature vs nurture debate

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Nature - biological determinism - genetic makeup determined behaviour
Nuture - behaviourism - personal qualities shaped by experiences

Change
Nature
CSISPR - genetic modification + medication

Nuture
Theory dialectic behavioural therapy conversation therapy etc

Contemporary understanding
Nature and nurture

Thomas Bouchard (1990)
- Similarities - mannerisms and personality
- Nature

Therapy
- Accepted tool to be able to treat patients

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adolescence - social construct

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social construc
- Didn’t exist prior to ww2
- Baby boom - greater number of people in “teen” years
- Became category of their own

Individuality valued expressed - self discovery
more responsibilities and rights given

Australian
right to vote
driving

amish
Rumspringa

Not valid universally
Western cultures - value individuality found and expressed through adolescence
Move out and stay out at 18
Parents moved into aged care community

Eastern cultures - homogeneity and community more valued > adolescence less valued
return home
Look after parents - aged care

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Changing rights and responsibilities

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Adolescence
18 vote + drink

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theory of life course

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Theory of generations - mannheim

Individuals belonging to the same generation are endowed with a common location in the historical dimension of the social process

Shaped by our social and cultural context
Influence society + catalyse change

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Cross generational analysis on agents of socialisation

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Media
Different
- Change type + frequency of media
- More pervasive impact

Family
- Extended family decline + more stress on parents
- Older siblings > teach younger

Location
- Impacts expression of beliefs
- More difficult

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