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Sociological Perspective Flashcards

1
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Culture is derived from the Latin word _______, meaning care or cultivation.

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cultura or cultus

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It is analogous to caring for an infant.

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Culture

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It refers to the identity or feeling of belongingness to a certain culture group.

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Cultural identity

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An individual’s perception about himself or herself anchored on race, gender, nationality, religion, ethnicity, and language.

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Cultural identity

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These are what dictates our behavior in the society. The acceptability of an act; the approval and the disapproval of which, is dependent on social standards.

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Norms

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He argued that self is not biological, but social.

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George Herbert Mead

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7
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It is developed as one
grows and ages through social interaction.

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Social self

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8
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Mead explains that the self has 2 parts:

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  1. Self-awareness
  2. Self-image
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Mead proposed the idea that:

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  • the self develops through social interaction
  • social interaction involves the exchange of symbols
  • understanding of symbols involves being able to take the role of another
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The process in which one takes on the role of the other by putting oneself in the position of the person with whom he/she interacts.

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Role playing

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11
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The development of “self” lies
in the ability to ________________.

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“wear other people’s shoes”

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12
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Stages of Development according to Mead:

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  1. Imitation/Preparatory Stage
  2. Play Stage
  3. Game Stage
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Child imitates the behavior of his/her parents.

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Imitation/Preparatory Stage

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This involves the child playing the role of others.

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Play Stage

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The child comes to see himself in their roles from the perspective of other people.

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Game Stage

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16
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Phases of the Self according to Mead:

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  1. I
  2. Me
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Characteristics of I:

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  • subjective; unsocialized and spontaneous
  • acting part of the self, an immediate response to other people
  • represents the self that is free and unique
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Characteristics of Me:

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  • objective; conventional
  • self that results from the progressive stages of role playing
    and role-taking
  • the perspective one assumes to view and
    analyze one’s own behaviors
  • organization of the internalized attitude of others
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19
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An organized community or social group which gives the individual
his/her identity.

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Generalized Others

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20
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It is a social psychological concept that views the self as something
developed by one’s perceptions of other people’s opinions.

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Looking-glass Self, Charles Horton Cooley

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21
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The 3 Steps of Social Interaction according to Cooley:

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  1. People imagine how they must appear to others
  2. They imagine the judgement on that appearance
  3. They develop themselves through the judgement of others
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22
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He proposed the Theory of Private, Public, and Collective Self.

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Harry Triandis

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Characteristics of Private Self:

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  • cognition that involves traits, states, and behaviors
  • an assessment of the self by the self
  • shows one’s knowledge of attributes that differentiate them
    from others.
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Characteristics of Public Self:

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  • cognition concerning the generalized other’s view of the self
  • corresponds to an assessment of the self by the generalized
    other
  • shows one’s relationship with others and the role one assumes
    in that relationship
25
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Cognition concerning a view of the self found in memberships in
social groups (e.g., family, co-workers, tribe, professional
organizations).

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Collective Self

26
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They proposed the Social Identity Theory.

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Henri Tajfel and William Sumner

27
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It is defined as the person’s sense of who he/she is according to
his/her membership to a certain group.

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Social Identity Theory

28
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It is an important source of pride and self-esteem; gives a sense of social identity.

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Group membership

29
Q

The world is divided into __ and ____ through the process of
social categorization forming the social groups.

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us and them

30
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The 2 Types of Social Group:

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  1. In-group
  2. Out-group
31
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It is an esteemed social group commanding a member’s loyalty; the group to which a person belongs.

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In-group

32
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A scorned social group to which one feels competition or opposition; the group to which a person does not belong.

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Out-group

33
Q

Social Identity Theory states that the in-group will __________
against the out-group to enhance its self-image.

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discriminate

34
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The 3 Mental Processes:

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  1. Social Categorization
  2. Social Identification
  3. Social Comparison
35
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It is similar to how people categorize things in order to understand their social environment, with this, people learn things about themselves by knowing what category they belong to.

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Social Categorization

36
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People adopt the identity of the group to which they have
categorized themselves.

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Social Identification

37
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The comparison of a group with other groups. Here, they might discriminate and criticize other groups.

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Social Comparison

38
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He proposed the Anthropology of the Self.

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Brian Morris

39
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Self is not an entity but a ______ that orchestrates an individual’s
personal experience.

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process

40
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It is defined as an individual’s mental representation of his person, as kind of self representation.

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Self

41
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It refers to how one
perceives the mental representations of others.

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Other

42
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The most crucial form of interaction and exchange takes place…

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between the self and his cultural
environment as mediated by social practices.

43
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He regarded the self as the “society of mind.

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Hubert Hermans

44
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In the Dialogical Self Theory, An individual’s _______ is established through how one identifies himself with the different positions he holds, internally or externally, to himself.

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sense of self

45
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It is a relational concept of self; one’s moments of insights about himself and his actions are relational to others.

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Dialogical Self

46
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It refers to how one functions in himself.

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Internal I-position

47
Q

It refers to how one identifies himself/herself based on particular
external factors.

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External I-position

48
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The ________ calls for the need for the I-positions to come in contact with each other for an individual to become fully aware of the
different dimensions that constitute his self.

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dialogic self approach

49
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He proposed the Saturated Self Theory.

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Kenneth Gergen

50
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It is characterized by constant connection to others. It absorbs many voices and takes in
seemingly endless streams of information.

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Saturated Self

51
Q

This saturation contradicts the notion of a singular, true, authentic
self and instead gives way to a self consisting of __________.

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multiple selves

52
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The splitting of the self into many options.

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Multiphrenia

53
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It brings a general loss of true and knowable selves.

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Social saturation

54
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Characteristics of an Individualist:

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  • everyone grows up to look after him and his immediate family only
  • children learn to think in terms of “I”
  • individual ownership resources
  • low-context communication prevails
  • media is the primary source of information
  • self-actualization by every individual is an ultimate goal
  • occupation mobility is higher
  • task prevails over relationship
  • individual interest prevail over collective
55
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Characteristics of a Collectivist:

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  • people are born into extended families or in other groups that continue protecting them in
    exchange for loyalty
  • children learn to think in terms of “we”
  • resources should be shared with relatives
  • high context communication prevails
  • social networks are the primary source of information
  • harmony and consensus in society are the ultimate goal
  • occupation mobility is lower
  • relationship prevails over task
  • collective interests prevail over individual
56
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It is an orientation concerned with the independence and self-reliance of the individual.

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Individualism

57
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It is an orientation characterized by belongingness to larger groups.

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Collectivism

58
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The ________ changes overtime, and if in case, they do not, the society is trapped in the challenges of the modern world.

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values of a society

59
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It brought an understanding of the self, as part of the global world, and not just of the micro society.

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The Internet

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