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NAME: ____________________________________ DATE: __________________________

BLOCK & SECTION: _________________________ INSTRUCTOR: ___________________


(TO BE SUBMITTED ON NOV. 5, 2024)

TOPIC 6: MATERIAL SELF: TO BUY OR NOT TO BUY?

Introduction

We are living in a world of sale and shopping spree. We are given a wide
array of products to purchase from a simple set of spoon and fork to owning a
restaurant. Almost everywhere, including the digital space, we can find promotions of
product purchase. Product advertisements are suggestive of making us feel better or
look good. Part of us wants to have that product. What makes us want to have those
products are connected with who we are. What we have and already possess is related
to our self.
Belk stated that “we regard our possessions as part of our selves. What we have
and what we possess.” There is a direct link b/w self-identity with what we have and
possess.

Objectives

At the end of the lessons, the Pre-service Teachers will be able to:
1. Explain the association of self and possessions;
2. Identify the role of consumer culture to self and identity; and
3. Appraise one’s self based on the description of material self.
Try this!

DEBIT CARD CHALLENGE


A very wealthy person gave you a debit card and told you to use it as much as you want
to make yourself happy. What are you going to do with it? Make a list of what you want to have.
Write as many as you want.
L I S T

Think ahead!
Answer the following questions:

1. How do you feel as you do the debit card challenge?


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2. Which among the items in your list you like the most? Why?
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3. If ever you were given a chance in real life to have one among the list, which would
you choose. Why?
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4. Let your classmate read your list. Ask her/him to give or write a quick impression of
yourself based on the list you showed him/her. (You may paste here the screenshot/picture
of your classmate’s impression)

5. Is the quick impression of your classmate has some truth about who you are?
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Read and Ponder
Material self
A Harvard psychology in the late nineteenth century, William James, wrote in the book, the
principles of psychology in 1890 that understanding the self can be examined through its
different components namely: 1] its constituents; 2] the feelings and emotions they aroused
self-feelings; 3] the actions for which they prompt the seeking and self-preservation. The
constituents of self are composed of material self, the social self, the spiritual self, and the pure
ego.

The material self, according to William James primarily is about our bodies; clothes; immediate
family; home.

HOME
Immediate Family

Clothes

Body

MATERIAL SELF:

1. Body is the innermost part of material self. You are directly attached to this commodity
that you cannot live without. You strive hard to make sure that this body functions well
and good. Example is Mariah Carey; she was reported to have placed a huge amount for
the insurance of his vocal cords and legs.

2. Clothes is next to the body that was being influenced by the “the philosophy of dress” by
Herman Lotze. William James believed that an essential part of the material self is
clothing. Lotze stipulated in his book that any time you bring an abject into the surface of
your body, you invest that object into any consciousness of your personal existence
taking in its contours to be your own and making it part of the self.
3. Immediate Family is the third in the hierarchy. Your parents and siblings hold another
great important part of yourself. What they do or became affects you. When an
immediate family member dies, part of you dies, too. When their lives are in success, you
feel their victories as if you are the one holding the bacon. In their failures, you are put to
chance or guilt. When they are disadvantage situation, there is an urgent urge to help
like a voluntary instinct of saving one’s self from danger.

4. Home is the fourth component of material self. Home is where your heart is. It is the
earliest nest of your selfhood. Your experience inside the home were recorded and
marked on particular parts and things in your home. There was an old cliché about
rooms: “if only walls can speak”. The home thus is an extension of self, because in it, you
can directly connect yourself.

We are what we have


Russel Belk (1988) posits “… we regard our possessions as part of our selves. We are
what we have and what we possess.” The identification of the self to things stared in our infancy
stage when we make a distinction among self and environment and others who may desire our
possessions.
The possessions that we dearly have tell something about who we are our self- concept,
our past, and even our future.
See if you can do this!

DEBIT CARD CHALLENGE LIST


1. Go back to your Debit Card Challenge List. Put a mark on the left side of each item with the
following categories:
• B- if the item is related with your BODY
• C- if the item is related with CLOTHES
• F- if the item is related or intended to your FAMILY
• H- if the item is related HOME

2. Answer the following questions:


• Which among the categories you have most in your list?

• What do you think these things tell you about yourself?

COLLAGE MAKING
Create a collage of your treasured possessions including your current clothing style.
You may use symbols or pictures of your treasured possessions. Put a short note why you
treasure each item.

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