S.S. 1.1 (Technologies of engagement and the relational self - Gergen) Flashcards
Social
Who we interact with and the way we do it.
Saturation
Not a lot of space. Highly populated.
Multiphrenia
Having multiple identities pieced together from the multiplicity of mediated messages in our environment.
Postmodern
Immersion propels us towards a new self-consciousness.
Populating the self (Definition)
Reflecting the infusion of partial identities through social saturation.
Social Saturation
Caused by a magnitude of cultural change. Technology places an important role in this change.
Low Tech
Rail road. Public postal service. Automobile. Telephone. Radio broadcasting. Printed books. Motion pictures.
High Tech
Air transportation.
Television.
Electronic communication.
Air Transportation
Expansion of business to global scale.
Multi- and international corporations.
Global and Free market.
Television
Self-multiplication.
Media figures to enter into people’s personal lives.
Can normal relationships can match the power of artificial?
Electrical Innovation
Email, Comm. satellites, Internet (Facebook, Twitter and Skype).
Communication is now global.
The Two Aspects Of Expansion
Technology took away the problem of space and time differences.
The pace of relationships are more hurried.
Forms of a Modified Relationship
Friendly lover.
Microwave relationship.
Traditional Face-to-Face Relationship
Long term relationship tend towards normalisation.
Most people know what others are doing.
Relationships that range far and wide characteristics
Mainly through electronic communication.
Cannot easily be supervised.
Factors that play a role in the Intensification of emotional levels in a relationship (3)
Fantasy.
Long-distance relationship.
The shortness of the relationship.
Populating the Self
Every individual harbors a constant and coherent identity.
Technologies of Social Saturation expose us to enormous range of
People.
Relationships.
Circumstances.
Feelings.
We store Information under
Knowing that.
Knowing how.
Knowing That
We ingest enormous amount of info about patterns of interchange through exposure to others.
Example; Language, Choice of words, Action, Dress, Mannerisms.
Knowing How
We learn how to apply the knowledge we attained, Shape our social consumption, Act in order to have a successful social life.
We become Dependent of others
Desires.
Values.
Goals.
(Because it has become my own as well).
Social Construction of Reality (Modernist) 3
Autonomous.
Independent.
Self-creator.
Social Construction of Reality (Postmodernism)
Makes human interaction the creator.
