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Sociological and Anthropological Perspective of Self Flashcards

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Social interaction; assumption that human behavior is influenced by group life

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Sociology

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Concerned with how cultural and biological processes interact to shape self.

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Anthropology

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The four components of identity? Explain.

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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

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Sociologist behind “Social Self Theory”

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George Herbert Mead

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The subjective element and active side of self? It is also the response and processes “me”.

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“i”

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The objective element of the self. It is also dependent of others and thinks about the expectation of others; societal control.

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“Me”

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Three stage process of the development of the self

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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)
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Introduces the “Looking-glass self”

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Charles Horton Cooley

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People whom a person interacts become a mirror in which he views himself.

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The Looking-Glass Self

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We share the need for co-existence; interdependence and reciprocity; Bioecological Systems Theory

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Urie Bronfenbrenner

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Explains how inherent qualities of children and their environments interact to influence how they grow and develop.

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Bioecological Systems Theory

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Enduring forms of interaction in the immediate environment

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Proximal Process

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Three types of Idea of Person and their differences

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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

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Smallest and most immediate environment in which children live; home, school/daycare, peer group,

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Microsystem

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interaction of different microsystem which children find themselves in; linkages between home and school, peer group and family, family and community

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Mesosytem

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linkages that may exist between two or more settings that may not contain the developing children but indirectly affects them

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Exosystem

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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

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Macrosystem

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useful dimension of time, which demonstrates influence of both change and constancy in the children’s environment

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Chronosystem

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Continuously change due to demands of multitude of social contexts, new info tech, and globalization.

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Self-identity

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Natural force that broadly includes the physical and communal elements present in our everyday surroundings.

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Environmental Factors

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Biological process by which certain traits and characteristics are passed of from one generation to another

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Hereditary factors

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Refers to the inclination of a person to form and construct a specific identity that makes him distinct from others.

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Person-Volition factors

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The three dimensionalities of the self

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Environmental Factors
Hereditary Factors
Person-Volition Factors

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In the context of social formation of self can be defined as how cultural, social, and physical processes interplayed to shape our world experiences.

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Anthropology

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a virtue; a person’s standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is acceptable for them to do.

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Morals

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considered to be true or held as an opinion by a group

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Belief

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facts, information, and skills acquired by a person

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Knowledge

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action or way of behaving that is usual and traditional among people in particular group or place

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Customs

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expression or application of human creative skill and imagination

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Art

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system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the action of its members

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Law

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He defines as “that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law customs, and any other capabilities.

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Edward B. Taylor, CULTURE

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a way of regarding, understanding, interpreting something; a mental impression

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Perception

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person’s principles or standards of behavior

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Values

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thought, plan, or suggestion about what to do; an opinion or belief.

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Ideas

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it is how people make sense of their experiences and behave according to their socially shared ideas, values, and perceptions

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Culture

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Culture provides?

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Pattern way of life

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2 ways the concept of self viewed in diff. societies

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Egocentric View- autonomous and distinct individual.; each person is replica of all humanity but capable of acting independently
Sociocentric View- contingent on a situation or social setting; view of the self that is context-dependent.

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Offers symbolic interpretative model of culture

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Clifford Geertz

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“Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.”

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Max Weber

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Defined by his genetic potentials shaped into actual accomplishments which is made possible by culture; human nature is interdependent with culture

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Clifford Geertz

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Robbins considered human beings as cultural animals as they create the meanings of: (6)

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  1. Objects
  2. Persons
  3. Behaviors
  4. Emotions
  5. Events
  6. Behavior in accordance with meaning they assume to be true.
42
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Exist when groups of people assign different meanings to different life events and things

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Cultural Differences

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“The self is the totality of what an organism is– , , , ,and . Though it is a unit, it is not unitary.

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Physically, Biologically, Psychologically, Sociologically, and Culturally

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3 Prevalent issues on self

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1: Nature vs Nurture
2: Identity vs Self
3: Dimensionalities of Self/Identity

45
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Cultural practices of advertising and mass media influence individuals to consume goods for feeling of goodness and power when compared with others

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Jean Baudrillard

46
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Our environment, upbringing, and life experience determine our behavior

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Nurture

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Genetics determine our behavior.

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Nature

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