The Material/ Economic Self Flashcards
The self in association to his/her possessions
MATERIAL/ ECONOMIC SELF
Who wrote The Principles of Psychology (1890)?
William James
Who said that “A man’s self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and back-account. All these things give him the same emotions. If they wax and prosper, he feels triumphant; if they dwindle and die away, he feels cast down, – not necessarily in the same degree for each thing, but in much the same way for all.”
William James
Refers to tangible objects, people, or places that carry the designation on my or mine.
MATERIAL/ ECONOMIC SELF
Refers to any part of our body. These entities are clearly an intimate part of who we are.
BODILY SELF
Refers to anything that is beyond our body (Psychological ownership)
EXTENDED SELF
The importance a consumer attaches to worldly possessions.
Materialism
The extent to which consumption becomes the primary source of satisfaction, as well as the dominant mode of motivation.
Materialism
This model states that one’s possessions are considered a part of oneself. They are symbols and extensions of the personal and social aspects of her identity/ personhood.
Symbolic Communication Model
This model states that possession helps people define themselves.
Symbolic Communication Model
This model states that possessions can enhance one’s image and develop a positive sense of self.
Symbolic Communication Model
This model states that it can be a reassurance that one is the person’s wishes to be.
Symbolic Communication Model
This model states that goods and possessions are used to fill in or to compensate for the person’s lack.
Symbolic Communication Model
consumers own high-priced, status-oriented goods to impress others and to convince them of their high social status.
Conspicuous Consumption
What is the step-by-step of the loss of Possessions
- Acquisition of material possessions
- Possessions become symbolic expression of self-identity
- Loss of possessions
- Loss of important aspect of self
- Negative reactions
TRUE OR FALSE
Meaning is in a constant state of flux.
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE
Meanings of objects that are used to make visible and stabilize the categories of culture are also stagnant in their appropriation in advertising, in television programming, and among social subgroups.
FALSE because–
are also subject to frequent change through their appropriation in advertising, in television programming, and among social subgroups.
TRUE OR FALSE
Cultural categories of person that help shape identity are subject to constant manipulation by individuals, social groups, and marketing agents.
TRUE
Extensions of the Self and have become parts of the extended self. It belongs to the top 5 possessions.
Pets
TRUE OR FALSE
There is a negative relationship between self-esteem and owning pets (Covert et al, 1985)
FALSE
The _____ as “co-therapist” (Levinson, 1962)
dog
Who said?
“It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
Bertrand Russell
