PL2: self, society, and culture Flashcards
What is the Self ? The self in contemporary literature and even common sense , is commonly defined by the ff characteristics:
- Separate
- Self -contained
- Independent
- Consistent
- Unitary
- Private
By ________, it is meant that the self is distinct from other selves.
The self is always unique and has its own identity.
One cannot be another person.
Even twins are distinct from each other.
Separate
It is ______________ because in itself it can exist. Its distinctness allows it to be it and with its own thoughts, characteristics and volition. It does not require any other self for it to exist.
Self-contained and Independent
It is ____________ because it has a personality that is enduring and therefore can be expected to persist for quite some time.
Its consistency allows it to be studies, described, and measured.
It also means that a particular self’s traits, characteristics tendencies and potentialities are more or less the same.
Consistent
Self is ________ in that it is the center of all experiences and thoughts that run through a certain person.
It is like the chief command post in an individual where all processes, emotions, and thoughts converge.
Unitary
Each person sorts out information, feelings and emotions, and thought processes within the self.
This whole process is never accessible to anyone but the self This last characteristic of the self being private suggests that the self is isolated from the external world.
It lives within its own world.
Private
_____ refers to a person’s sense of who he is, his body and his basic identity, his biological givenness.
Moi
French _____________________ said that every self has two faces: PERSONNE and MOI.
Anthropologist Marcel Mauss
_____ is a person’s basic identity.
Moi
___________, on the other hand, is composed of the social concepts of what it means to be who he is.
Personne
__________ is another interesting aspect of this social constructivism.
Language
French Anthropologist ________ said that every self has two faces: PERSONNE and MOI.
Marcel Mauss
In doing so, sociologists focus on the different institutions and powers at pay in the society. Among these, the most prominent is the ______.
Family
In trying to achieve the goal of becoming a fully realized human, a child enters a system of relationships, most important of which is the _______.
family
