Sociological perspective of the self Flashcards
The struggle for one’s individuality is only possible in modern society where religio-theological traditions are gradually replaced by __________.
rational and scientific calculations
According to him, the intimate personal affiliations are replaced by exceedingly impersonal associations brought about by urbanized way of life.
Clifford Geertz
Love grew mostly in those _____ ______ where traditions was defied/challenged.
stolen places
In earlier times, ______ defined everyone’s place in a given relationship; there was nothing to create or negotiate.
morality
Today, ________ ________ must often work out their own ethics.
personal relationships
Today, the gentle touch of love becomes an _________.
iron grip of power
They are beliefs that cannot be proven to be true and sometimes can be proven false, but are, nonetheless, necessary to sustain life.
necessary fictions
They are necessary because without them we would be ________ in a world chaos.
rudderless
The ______ is a set of moving parts, with the movement being informed by one’s need at any given time.
self
He coined the term necessary fiction.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Each of us is ______ _______, or in relational parlance, we are multiple (Nietzsche, 1887).
many people
Self is a _________, a ____ _______, and ________.
narrative text written rewritten
Information technology dislocates self, thus, self is _______ in cyberspace (Nicola Green).
digitalized
According to Zygmunt Bauman, it is how to construct an identity and kept it solid and stable.
modern problem of identity
According to Bauman, it is how to avoid fixation and kept the options open.
Postmodern problem of identity
According to Nietzsche, the unity of the self is not something that is pregiven to individuals, it is something they mut accomplish through ______ _______.
conscious effort
According to him, 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.
George Herbert Mead
Mind arises out of the _________.
social act of communications
It is not initially there at birth, but arises in the process of social experience and activity.
social self
It allows individuals to take on the “role of other” and allows people to respond to his or her own gestures in terms of the symbolized attitudes of others.
Language
It allows individuals to take on the roles of other people and pretend to be those other people in order to express the expectations of significant others.
Play
It requires individuals 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.
Game
The ___ represents the expectations and attitudes of others. It represents the learned behavior, attitudes, and expectations of others and the society.
Me self
The ___ can be considered the present and future phase of the self. It also represents the individual’s identity based on response to the me self.
I self
