Sociological and Anthropological Perspective of Self Flashcards
Social interaction; assumption that human behavior is influenced by group life
Sociology
Concerned with how cultural and biological processes interact to shape self.
Anthropology
The four components of identity? Explain.
Attitude: the way you feel about something
Beliefs: what is true and untrue
Perceptions: the way you see things
Values: What is right and what is wrong
Sociologist behind “Social Self Theory”
George Herbert Mead
The subjective element and active side of self? It is also the response and processes “me”.
“i”
The objective element of the self. It is also dependent of others and thinks about the expectation of others; societal control.
“Me”
Three stage process of the development of the self
Preparatory stage (0-3; no sense of self, imitate people around) Play stage (3-5; self is developing, communicate through language and symbols Game stage (early school yrs; 8-9, have references in evaluating themselves)
Introduces the “Looking-glass self”
Charles Horton Cooley
People whom a person interacts become a mirror in which he views himself.
The Looking-Glass Self
We share the need for co-existence; interdependence and reciprocity; Bioecological Systems Theory
Urie Bronfenbrenner
Explains how inherent qualities of children and their environments interact to influence how they grow and develop.
Bioecological Systems Theory
Enduring forms of interaction in the immediate environment
Proximal Process
Three types of Idea of Person and their differences
A. Idea of Demand- personal characteristics
B. Idea of Resource- mental, emotional and material capability and inadequacies.
C. Idea of Force- inherent differences in temperament, motivation, drive and persistence
Smallest and most immediate environment in which children live; home, school/daycare, peer group,
Microsystem
interaction of different microsystem which children find themselves in; linkages between home and school, peer group and family, family and community
Mesosytem
linkages that may exist between two or more settings that may not contain the developing children but indirectly affects them
Exosystem
largest and most distant collection of people and places to the children; children’s cultural patterns and values, dominant beliefs and ideas, as well as political and economic systems
Macrosystem
useful dimension of time, which demonstrates influence of both change and constancy in the children’s environment
Chronosystem
Continuously change due to demands of multitude of social contexts, new info tech, and globalization.
Self-identity
Natural force that broadly includes the physical and communal elements present in our everyday surroundings.
Environmental Factors
Biological process by which certain traits and characteristics are passed of from one generation to another
Hereditary factors
Refers to the inclination of a person to form and construct a specific identity that makes him distinct from others.
Person-Volition factors
The three dimensionalities of the self
Environmental Factors
Hereditary Factors
Person-Volition Factors
In the context of social formation of self can be defined as how cultural, social, and physical processes interplayed to shape our world experiences.
Anthropology
