Sociological Flashcards

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“Self as the Product of Modern Society”

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Clifford Geertz

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He said that “The struggle for one’s individuality is only possible in modern society where religiotheological traditions are gradually replaced by rational and scientific calculations”

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Clifford Geertz

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3
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“Self as Necessary Fiction”

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Information Technology dislocates the self, thus, self is digitalized in cyberspace”

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Nicola Green

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5
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It is how to construct an identity and keep it solid and stable

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Modern Problem of Identity

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6
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It is how to avoid fixation and keep the operations open

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Postmodern problem of identity

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7
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Psychosexual stages of development by Sigmund Freud

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Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genitals

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Self as Artistic creation
He Said that “The unity of the self is not something that is pregiven to individuals. It is something that they must accomplish through conscious effort”

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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9
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He states that “The social conception of the self entails that individual selves are the products of social interaction and not the logical or biological preconditions of that interaction”.

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George Herbert Mead

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10
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3 activities through which the self is developed

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  1. Language
  2. Play
  3. Game
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It allows individuals to take on the “role of the other” and allows people to respond to his or her own gestures in terms of the symbolized attitudes of others

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Language

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Allows individual to take on the roles of other people and pretend to be those other people in order to express the expectations of significant others

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Play

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It requires the individual to internalize the roles of all others who are involved with him or her in the game and must comprehend the rules of the game.

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Game

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14
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Two sides of the self

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Me and I

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15
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It represents the expectations and attitudes of others

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Me

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16
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Represents the individual’s identity based on response to the “Me”

17
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2 faces of the self according to Marcel Mauss

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Moi
Personne

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It refers to the person’s basic identity, his/her biological giveness

19
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It composed of the social concepts of what it means to be who he is

20
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Way of life

21
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A cultural group within a larger culture

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Subculture

22
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He said that the self is the essence of a person: his thoughts, feelings and actions, experiences beliefs, values, principles and relationships

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William James

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According to William James, it refers to the aspects of someone that come from that person’s experiences.

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Three sections of Me self

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  1. Material self
  2. Social self
  3. Spiritual self
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It consists of things that belong to us or that we belong (e.g., family, clothes, our body, money)
Material self
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It is who we are in a given social situation
Social self
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It is who we are at the core
Spiritual self
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It is classified as the thinking self
I self
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It has a sense of integrity and of connected wholeness.
True self
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When the person has to comply with external rules, such as being polite or otherwise following social codes.
False self
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2 types of False self
1. Healthy false self 2. Unhealthy false self
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It is when the false self is functional both for the person and for society.
Healthy false self
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It is when a self that fits in but through a feeling of forced compliance rather than loving adaptation.
Unhealthy false self
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It refers to controlling a situation by making things happen or by preparing for possible future problems.
Self as proactive
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A social cognition theory of Albert Bandura that views people as self organizing, proactive, self reflective and self regulating as time change.
Agentic
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The capacity for human beings to make choices in the world
Agentic
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It states that we are not merely reactive organisms shaped by environmental forces or driven by inner impulses
Agentic Perspective
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It is seeing the world as agents of change
Agentic self