S.S. 1.1 (Technologies of engagement and the relational self - Gergen)

Question 1

Social

Answer 1

Who we interact with and the way we do it.

Question 2

Saturation

Answer 2

Not a lot of space. Highly populated.

Question 3

Multiphrenia

Answer 3

Having multiple identities pieced together from the multiplicity of mediated messages in our environment.

Question 4

Postmodern

Answer 4

Immersion propels us towards a new self-consciousness.

Question 5

Populating the self (Definition)

Answer 5

Reflecting the infusion of partial identities through social saturation.

Question 6

Social Saturation

Answer 6

Caused by a magnitude of cultural change. Technology places an important role in this change.

Question 7

Low Tech

Answer 7

Rail road.
Public postal service.
Automobile.
Telephone.
Radio broadcasting.
Printed books.
Motion pictures.

Question 8

High Tech

Answer 8

Air transportation.
Television.
Electronic communication.

Question 9

Air Transportation

Answer 9

Expansion of business to global scale.
Multi- and international corporations.
Global and Free market.

Question 10

Television

Answer 10

Self-multiplication.
Media figures to enter into people’s personal lives.
Can normal relationships can match the power of artificial?

Question 11

Electrical Innovation

Answer 11

Email, Comm. satellites, Internet (Facebook, Twitter and Skype).
Communication is now global.

Question 12

The Two Aspects Of Expansion

Answer 12

Technology took away the problem of space and time differences.
The pace of relationships are more hurried.

Question 13

Forms of a Modified Relationship

Answer 13

Friendly lover.

Microwave relationship.

Question 14

Traditional Face-to-Face Relationship

Answer 14

Long term relationship tend towards normalisation.

Most people know what others are doing.

Question 15

Relationships that range far and wide characteristics

Answer 15

Mainly through electronic communication.

Cannot easily be supervised.

Question 16

Factors that play a role in the Intensification of emotional levels in a relationship (3)

Answer 16

Fantasy.
Long-distance relationship.
The shortness of the relationship.

Question 17

Populating the Self

Answer 17

Every individual harbors a constant and coherent identity.

Question 18

Technologies of Social Saturation expose us to enormous range of

Answer 18

People.
Relationships.
Circumstances.
Feelings.

Question 19

We store Information under

Answer 19

Knowing that.

Knowing how.

Question 20

Knowing That

Answer 20

We ingest enormous amount of info about patterns of interchange through exposure to others.
Example; Language, Choice of words, Action, Dress, Mannerisms.

Question 21

Knowing How

Answer 21

We learn how to apply the knowledge we attained, Shape our social consumption, Act in order to have a successful social life.

Question 22

We become Dependent of others

Answer 22

Desires.
Values.
Goals.
(Because it has become my own as well).

Question 23

Social Construction of Reality (Modernist) 3

Answer 23

Autonomous.
Independent.
Self-creator.

Question 24

Social Construction of Reality (Postmodernism)

Answer 24

Makes human interaction the creator.

Question 25

Individualism (Modernism)

Answer 25

The individual must disentangle himself from the regulations of society.

Question 26

Individualism (Postmodernism)

Answer 26

Argues in the favour of freedom of choice. Authority disappears.

Question 27

Virtual or Cyber existence

Answer 27

Individuals prefer virtual relationships.

Question 28

Self-irony and Doubt

Answer 28

“Reality” does not exist. Only virtual reality.

Question 29

Pluralism

Answer 29

The world consists of a great amount of inconsistent; Worldviews, Values, Styles.

Question 30

Fragmentation

Answer 30

Conflict between; Views, Values, Styles are the rule rather than the exception.

Question 31

Essencelessness

Answer 31

Nothing has a set or dominant core or identity.

Question 32

Proliferation of Identity or Identity-lessness

Answer 32

Things exist continuously because of mixing identities.

Question 33

Irrationalism

Answer 33

The modern rational order disappears in no authority.

Question 34

Perspective that does not have a perspective (Critical Remarks)

Answer 34

That is only a perspective or social construct.

Question 35

Contradiction (Critical Remarks)

Answer 35

A indication that is not so easy to distanciate from given transcendent norms.