THE “SELF” FROM SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

Question 1

It is the understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context.

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SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Question 2

It plays a crucial role in self-development. interaction It helps define self image and personality. It is indeed significant to the development of the social self.

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Social interaction

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People who share a culture and a territory.

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Society

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Group of people residing in a specific area, sharing common culture over time. “COMMON INTEREST”

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Community

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The study of human relationships and institutions.

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Sociology

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It helps establish a reference framework where one’s learned ways, held values, treasured values, the manner of thinking and the modes of behaving may be attributed from others

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Socialization

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It is something that helps us to differentiate one e society from another.

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Culture

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Interdependent group of people who live together in a particular region/place and are associated with one another.

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Society

Question 9

WHAT ARE THE THREE THEORIES PRESENT IN SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE SELF?

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• Social Self Theory
• The Looking Glass Self
• Social Identity Theory

Question 10

He focuses on the way in which the self is developed. The one who proposed the Social Self Theory

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George Herbert Mead

Question 11

One of the theories that social self is based on the perspective that the self emerges from social interactions

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SOCIAL SELF THEORY

Question 12

present and future phase of self. It represents the individual identity based on response to the “me”

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I

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socialized aspect of the individual. It represents learned behaviors, attitudes and expectations of others and society

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ME

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develops self by allowing individuals to understand and adhere to the rules of the activity. Self is developed by an understanding that there are rules in which one must abide by in order to win the game.

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Games

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develops self by allowing individuals to respond to each other through symbols, gestures, words, and sounds.

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Language

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develops self by allowing individuals to take on different roles, pretend and express expectation of others. Play develops one’s self- consciousness through roleplay.

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Play

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This theory is all about becoming part of different groups, and how membership to these groups helps construct our identities.

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SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY

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Who proposed the Social Identity Theory?

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Henri Tajifel and Willian Graham Turner

Question 19

It is a group to which a person belongs

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IN – GROUP

Question 20

It is a group which a person does not belong to

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OUT – GROUP

Question 21

What are the three mental processes that Tajifel and Turner identified?

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• Social Categorization
• Social Identification
• Social Comparison

Question 22

once a social identity has been identified, people will choose to associate with certain groups.

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Social Identification

Question 23

this looks at the way people put others into categories.

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Social Categorization

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people compare themselves and their groups with other groups, seeing a favorable bias towards the group in which they belong

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Social Comparison

Question 25

Who proposed the looking glass self theory?

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Charles Horton Cooley

Question 26

This theory refers to the interactive process by which we develop an image of ourselves based on how we imagine how we appear to others.

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looking glass self theory

Question 27

What are the three steps under the looking glass self theory?

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1. How do I appear to others?
2. What must others think of me?
3. Revise how we think about ourselves