Self, Identity and Impression Management Flashcards
What is the Self
Our sense of personal identity
Source of reflexive behaviour
Mead’s ‘I’, ‘Me’
I: Active self (Impulse)
Me: Passive self (Behaviours)
Role-Taking
Learning how to act reflexively when we take on the role of others
Looking-Glass Self
Our perception of self based on what we believe others perceptions are
Mead’s Play and Game
Stages of Development
Play: Imitating roles they see
Game: Takes on role and requires sense of self
Generalized Other
The sense of self is a reflection of expectations
Importance of Language
Develops sense of self and individuality
Spotlight Effect
The belief that others are paying more attention to you than they really are
Illusion of Transparency
Feeling like our emotions are being read by others
Self and Culture
Individualism Vs Collectivism
Individualism: Leads to our priority of our goals over group goals
VS
Collectivism: More likely to identify with the group
Self-Esteem
Our sense of self-worth
Self-Efficacy
Believing you have the skills necessary to perform specifically
Self-Serving Bias
how we explain our behaviour depending on whether the outcome of our behaviour is positive or negative
What is Identity
The roles we play in society
Role and Social Identities
Role: Role we play in respected groups (Leader, athlete)
Social: Class, Religion, Fandoms (set way of expressing yourself)
Situated Self
trying to understand how to fuse these two visions of ourselves into a single coherent picture
Identity Salience
What is the most prominent of all our identities
Self-Presentation
Attempt to control what others view you as
Ideal - Presenting the person you want to be
Tactical - Presenting yourself in the same way others do around you
Frames
A blueprint of how a situation will happen
Impression Management
How you display yourself on social media
Goffmans Dramaturgy
Front stage - Presenting the character you are needed to play
Back stage - where we can be ourselves
Ingratiation Strategies
Fitting to others’ opinions
Aligning Actions
Ways of neutralizing situation (Disclaimers, accounts)
Stigma
Set of negative and often unfair beliefs that a society or group of people have about something
Spoiled Identities
Being attributed with a negative characteristic
