Week 1

Question 1

3 key points of Anthony Elliot - concepts of the self

Answer 1

• individuals are relatively free to experiment with their sense of identity.
• the self, in this view, becomes a matter of choice and risk.
• selfhood is flexible, fractured, fragmented and brittle … so too r/s with others.

Question 2

2 key ideas of the self

Answer 2

Agency & structure

Question 3

Agency

Answer 3

An active self with an inner psychic life - self-shaping, self-cultivating.

Question 4

Structure/society

Answer 4

A self that is disciplined, acted on, regulated, governed.

Question 5

Multi-disciplinary exploration of the self (5 approaches)

Answer 5

• symbolic interactionist/reflexive.
• psychoanalytic.
• post-structuralist.
• feminist.
• post-modernist.