TOPIC 3: Sociological Perspective Flashcards
modernization offers us endless opportunities to delocalize ourselves or detach ourselves from the limitations
Gerry Lanuza
Modern society has given us the freedom to choose our own identity
Gerry Lanuza
The sum of an individual’s actions, thoughts, and feelings
Friedrich Nietzsche (philosopher)
Representation that we project to other people
Friedrich Nietzsche (philosopher)
Firmly held beliefs or opinions about what feelings and behaviors mean at a
given time
Friedrich Nietzsche (philosopher)
“Have something that you want to have”
Friedrich Nietzsche (philosopher)
Self-identity continuously change due to the demand of a multitude of social contexts,
new information, and globalization
POST-MODERN VIEW OF THE SELF
Self is a narrative; a text written and rewritten and that we can freely choose what
identity we want to have for self-cultivation
POST-MODERN VIEW OF THE SELF
Self is viewed as an active, strategizing agent that negotiates for the definition of
oneself
SELF AS ARTISTIC CREATION
Study of human societies and all the processes involved in their interaction that
contribute to their development
Sociologist
Well-known for his theory of the social self based on the central argument that
the self is a social emergent
George Herbert Mead
individual selves are the product of social interaction and not the logical or biological
preconditions of that interaction
Theory of Social Self
spontaneous, driving force that fosters all the is novel, unpredictable, and
unorganized in the self
I
the objective self; the image of self seen when one takes the role of the other
Me
Sociologists focus on the different institutions and powers play in society, the most
prominent is the family.
SELF IN FAMILIES:
