personal and social identity Flashcards
Development of personality, self awareness, and self concept
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
Development of identity and social self + theorists
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
influence of agents of socialisation on personal and social identity
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
nature vs nurture debate
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
adolescence - social construct
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
Changing rights and responsibilities
Adolescence
18 vote + drink
theory of life course
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
Cross generational analysis on agents of socialisation
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
