Psychosocial - Identity

Question 1

What is empirical self?

Answer 1

william James
- different ways we think about ourselves
- divided into material self - social self and spiritual self

Question 2

Explain divisions of empirical self

Answer 2

**Material self **- All material things you regard as mine including – tangible objects. People and places
**Social self **- How we feel we’re regarded and recognised by others (social identities)
Spiritual self - Inner psychologic

Question 3

What did Zhao investigate?

Answer 3

‘me’ subcomponents material, social and spiritual
- Individuals self-concept
- Self is individuals own person viewed from standpoint of individual

Question 4

What categoreis did Deaux et al. identify in social identities?
What does this determine?

Answer 4

• Personal relationships
• Ethnic/ religion
• Political affiliation
• Stigmatised group
• Vocation

If a person acts different in each context they have no real genuine self

Question 5

What is the sociological appraoch to self?

Answer 5

• Self emerges in and is reflective of society
• Can’t understand self without clear understanding of society
• Development of ‘self concept’

Question 6

Define - self concept

Answer 6

Dynamic collection of self representation formed through personal experience and interpretation of the environment – Ellis-Hill 2010
- This changes due to experience of different relationships with bodies, families and wider society

Question 7

Define self-identity

Answer 7

Taylor – defining where I speak from, in the family tree, in social space, in geography of social statuses and functions, in intimate relations to the ones I love and also crucially in the space of moral and spiritual orientation
- What we do in practice also related as there relational working together

Question 8

What is habitus?

Answer 8

– Pierre Bourdieu
- to act in a particular way as we know without knowing the right thing
- social class shapes out habitus (see what is ‘normal’)

Question 9

Whats a pre-reflexive aspect of identity?

Answer 9

• habitus
• • Naturally identities without thinking about it
• • Physical capital, social capital and cultural capital play a role

Question 10

Describe interdependence of inequalities

Answer 10

• Class based inequalities
• Gender inequalities – childcare, occupation, pay conditions
• Ethnicity – minorities geographical concentrations

Question 11

What are identities in sick role?

Answer 11

• Not expected to fulfil normal social obligations
• Not held responsible for their illness
• Should want to get well
• Should seek and accept medical help

Question 12

What are causes of loss of self?

Answer 12

• Illness and disability disrupting one’s life trajectory
• Take assumptions and behaviours for granted
• Self image, body practices, social identities and valued roles
• Required mobilisation if resources to face changed situations

Question 13

Explain the legitimacy of illness and stigma?

Answer 13

• Discrimination due to perceived inferiority
• Shame
• Encouraged to conceal condition – present as normal (hidden distress model)
• Social norms for dominant norms and values due to existing power relation, dominations and discrimination
• Need to justify to self and others

Question 14

Explain inequalities and individual responsibility

Answer 14

• Those living with socioeconomic disadvantage have good understanding of link between socioeconomic hardship and ill-health

Question 15

What is athletic identity?

Answer 15

• More a person identifies with being an athlete more difficult it is to deal with athletic injuries
• So more depressive reaction after injury

Question 16

What is Ellis-Hill’s life thread model?

Answer 16

• Metaphor for how life is going – produced after a stroke but also applies to dementia
• Have string whole the different threads can seperate or break