Unit 2 Flashcards
The self
Regulating center of the psyche
Shadow
Opposite of the ego image
Anima
Feminine image in a mans psyche
Animus
Masculine image in a woman’s psyche
Inferiority complex
Alders theory that if one becomes too inferior they become feeling hopeless
Festinger
Social comparison: upward and downward
Competitive emulation
Families try to keep up with their neighbours materialistically
Maslow’s Hierarchy
Physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging, esteem needs, self actualization
Sherif
Cave experiment, in group out group dynamic & hostility
Robert Merton
Deviance
Melvin Seeman
Social isolation
5 stages of alienation
Powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness, social isolation, self estrangment
Powerlessness
- wanting to join a sports team but not thinking you’re good enough
3 types of suicide
Altruistic- dying for a greater cause, for a group
Egoistic- dying because they feel guilty
Anomic- dying because they feel isolated, life is rendered meaningless (ie. Death of a parent)
Charles Cooley
Looking glass self