THE “SELF” FROM SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Flashcards
It is the understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context.
SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
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.
Social interaction
People who share a culture and a territory.
Society
Group of people residing in a specific area, sharing common culture over time. “COMMON INTEREST”
Community
The study of human relationships and institutions.
Sociology
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
Socialization
It is something that helps us to differentiate one e society from another.
Culture
Interdependent group of people who live together in a particular region/place and are associated with one another.
Society
WHAT ARE THE THREE THEORIES PRESENT IN SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE SELF?
- Social Self Theory
- The Looking Glass Self
- Social Identity Theory
He focuses on the way in which the self is developed. The one who proposed the Social Self Theory
George Herbert Mead
One of the theories that social self is based on the perspective that the self emerges from social interactions
SOCIAL SELF THEORY
present and future phase of self. It represents the individual identity based on response to the “me”
I
socialized aspect of the individual. It represents learned behaviors, attitudes and expectations of others and society
ME
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.
Games
develops self by allowing individuals to respond to each other through symbols, gestures, words, and sounds.
Language
develops self by allowing individuals to take on different roles, pretend and express expectation of others. Play develops one’s self- consciousness through roleplay.
Play
This theory is all about becoming part of different groups, and how membership to these groups helps construct our identities.
SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY
Who proposed the Social Identity Theory?
Henri Tajifel and Willian Graham Turner
It is a group to which a person belongs
IN – GROUP
It is a group which a person does not belong to
OUT – GROUP
What are the three mental processes that Tajifel and Turner identified?
- Social Categorization
- Social Identification
- Social Comparison
once a social identity has been identified, people will choose to associate with certain groups.
Social Identification
this looks at the way people put others into categories.
Social Categorization
people compare themselves and their groups with other groups, seeing a favorable bias towards the group in which they belong
Social Comparison
