Sociological-Anthropological

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is a theory that examines how people learn, develop or construct their own understanding and knowledge of the world including the self through experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences

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Social constructionism

Question 2

This French Anthropologist also brought the value of the person to the fore. He further emphasized that every self has two manifestations namely the PERSONNE and the MOI.

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Marcel Mauss

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is the person’s sense of who he is. It is his basic identity.

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MOI

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is composed of the social concepts of what it means to be he is. The latter is taken in a social context so that it takes into consideration what it means to live in a particular group and how to behave in a given expectations and influences from others.

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PERSONNE

Question 5

The contribution of this sociologist, ______, is in the development of Symbolic Interactions Perspective.

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Margaret Mead (1901-1976)

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This micro-level theory focuses on the relationships among individuals within a society. It further implies that the society is composed of several symbols to which we act and react based on meanings ascribed to those things and according to how the person interprets the situations.

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Symbolic Interactions Perspective

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In this way, the self is mirrored in the reaction of the others which is called looking glass self. It was _____ who first gave us the term looking glass self.

is one of the founders of interactionist perspective.

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Charles Horton Cooley

Question 8

In this way, the self is mirrored in the reaction of the others which is called _______

Cooley thought that everyone that a person interacts with during their entire lifespan could influence our self-identity in some way or another. Individuals tend to accept the assessment of other people and then look at themselves as how others see them.

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looking glass self

Question 9

The sense of self is acquired by seeing the behaviors and attitudes of others toward us and imagining how others think about us (Palispis, 2007). Hence, there are three processes involve in this looking-glass self:

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presentation, identification and subjective interpretation

Question 10

The self, which is the part of a person’s personality consisting of self-awareness and self-image, is a product of social experience. However, according to him, only certain people like family at a certain periods of life influence identity.

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George Herbert Mead

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He further believes that at a young age, individuals were not actually influenced by others in any way because they see themselves as being the focus of their own world aside from the fact that they lack the ability to take the perspective of another person. But it is different when they grow up because the perception of other people about them becomes more important.

This happened through three distinct stages:

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the preparatory stage, the play stage and the game stage.

Question 12

in this stage, children interact with others through imitation.

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Preparatory stage

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In this stage, as these children grow older, they start to communicate more with others using symbols, gestures and words and other forms of communication which later they get to master little by little.

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Play stage

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In this stage, As these children grow older, they start to communicate more with others using symbols, gestures and words and other forms of communication which later they get to master little by little.

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George Herbert Mead

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He was the sociologist who introduced a version of symbolic interaction called Dramaturgy Theory

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Erving Goffman

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highlights the idea that everyday life is like a stage where each individual needs to learn to perform the assigned roles to him by other people through the process called socialization.

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Dramaturgy Theory

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was the proponent of Ecological Systems Theory. He strongly believed that a person’s development was affected by everything in their surrounding environment.

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Urie Brofenbrenner

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The person’s environment has five different levels:

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he microsystem, the mesosystem, the exosystem, the macrosystem, and the chronosystem.

Question 19

are the things that have direct contact with the child in their immediate environment, such as parents, siblings, teachers and school peers. This particular system is very crucial in the child’s development. A nurturing relationship from this group will have a positive effect on the child. And a distant or unaffectionate parent will have a negative effect on the child.

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Microsystem

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refers to the interactions of the child’s microsystems (family, school, church etc.). A healthy development in the child happens when the child’s microsystems functions interdependently. Hence, good relationships of the parents and the teachers will have positive effects on the child.

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Mesosystem

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which include the neighborhood, parent’s workplaces, parent’s friends and the mass media are external to the child and may not be directly involved with him/her but nonetheless affects them. For example, the parent’s problem at work may be brought home thus causing the parent to have a short temper with the child.

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Exosystems

Question 22

focuses on how cultural elements such as socioeconomic status, geographic location, wealth, poverty, and ethnicity affect a child’s development. This culture that individuals are immersed within may influence their beliefs and perceptions about events that transpire in life. So, a child living in a third world country would experience a different development than a child living in a wealthier country.

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Macrosystem

Question 23

consists of all of the environmental changes that occur over the lifetime which influence development, including major life transitions, and historical events. Separation of parents, moving to a new house or pandemic situations are examples of these environmental changes.

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Chronosystem