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Lesson2: The Self, Society and Culture

This document discusses the relationship between the self, society, and culture. It argues that the self is not a static, isolated entity, but is constantly shaped by social interactions and contexts. Language acquisition and interaction with others, particularly as a child, helps shape one's sense of self through assuming social roles. The family is also hugely influential in developing a person's self-identity through both conscious and unconscious socialization. Gender is another key aspect of the self that is influenced by societal expectations, though one should have freedom to discover and assert their own identity.

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Lesson2: The Self, Society and Culture

This document discusses the relationship between the self, society, and culture. It argues that the self is not a static, isolated entity, but is constantly shaped by social interactions and contexts. Language acquisition and interaction with others, particularly as a child, helps shape one's sense of self through assuming social roles. The family is also hugely influential in developing a person's self-identity through both conscious and unconscious socialization. Gender is another key aspect of the self that is influenced by societal expectations, though one should have freedom to discover and assert their own identity.

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LESSON2: THE SELF,

SOCIETY AND CULTURE


Lesson Objectives
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
1. Explain the relationship between and among the self,society, and culture;
2. Describe and discuss the different ways by which society and cultures
hape the self;
3. Compare and contrast how the self can be influenced by the different
institutions in the society;and
4. Examine one’s self against the different views of self that were discussed
in the class.
Introduction
• Across time and history, the self has been debated,discussed and fruit fully
or otherwise conceptualized by different thinkers in philosophy.
Eventually, with the advent of social sciences, it became possible for new
was and paradigms to reexamine the true nature of the self.
• People put a halt on speculative debates on the relationship between the
body and soul,eventually renamed body and the mind.
• The debate shifted into another locus of discussion.One of the loci,if not
the most important axis of the analysis is the relationship between the self
and the external world.
What is the relationship between external
reality and the self?

Human persons will not develop as human persons without intervention


• Ourselves are not special because of the soul infused into us
• Ourselves are truly products of our interaction with external reality.
What is the Self?
• “separate, self-contained, independent, consistent, unitary and private”
(Stevens1996).
• The last characteristics of the self being private suggests that the self is
isolated from the external world.
• It lives within its own world. However,we also see that this potential clash
between the self and the
• external reality is the reason for the self to have a clear understanding of what
it might be, what it can be, and what it will be.
• The concern of this lesson is inunderstanding the vibrant
relationship between the self and external reality.
• This perspective is known as the Social Constructionist
Perspective.
• "Social Constructionist argue for a merged view of the 'person'
and their 'social context' where the boundaries of the other”
(Stevens1996)
• Social Constructivists argue that the self should not be seen as
astatic entity that stays constant through and through.
• The self has to be seen as something that is in unceasing flux.
• The Self is always in participation with social life and it's
identity subjected to influences here and there.
• The Self is truly multi faceted
• We ourselves play different roles,act indifferent ways
depending on our circumstances.
• The Self is capable of morphing and fitting itself in
THE SELF AND
CULTURE
Remaining the same person and turning the
chameleon by adapting to one’s context is
paradoxical.
This phenomenon was explained by Marcel
Mauss, a French Anthropologist.
According to Mauss, every self has two faces:

PERSONNE and MOI.


• MOI - refers to a person’s who he is, his body, and
his basic identity, his giveness. It means the true
identity of oneself. In our own dialect.
• PERSONNE – is composed of the social concepts
of what it means to be who he is. It has to do with
what it means to live in a particular institution, a
particular family, a particular religion, a particular
nationality, and how to behave given expectations
and influences from others.
Language is another interesting
aspect of social constructivism.
THE SELF AND THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE
SOCIAL WORLD
• One is believed to be in active participation in the
shaping of the self.
• A human persons are just passive actors in the
whole process of the shaping of the selves.
• The man aren’t woman are born with
particularities that may no longer change.
• Men and women, their growth and development
engage actively in the shaping of the self.
• The unending terrain of metamorphosis of the
self is midiated by language
• Schwartz, White and Lutz 1993, “language
publicly shared on privately utilized symbol
system is the site where the individual and
the social make and remake each other.”

• According to Mead and Vygotsky, the way


that human persons develop is with the used
of language acquisitionand interaction with
others
• Both Mead and Vygotsky, treat the
human mind as something that is made
constituted through language as
experienced in the external world and
as encountered in dialogues with others.
• For Mead perspective; these takes place as a child assumes
the ‘other' through language and roleplay child
conceptualiazed his notion of ‘self’ through this. It is
through this that the ‘Ithe’ shall delineates the ‘I’ from the
rest.

• For Vygotsky, a child internalizes real-life dialogues that he


has with others with his family, his primary caregiver or his
playmates. They applies this to their mental and practical
problems along with the social and cultural infusions
brought about by the said dialogues.
SELF IN THE
FAMILIES
• Every child is born with certain givenness,
disposition coming from his parent's genes in and
general condition of life, the impact of one's family
is still deemed as a given in the understanding the
self.

• Human beings are born virtually helpless and


dependency period of a human baby to its parents
for nurturing relatively longer than most other
animals.
• Behavior may either be unconscious or
conscious.

• Some behaviors and attitudes, on the other


hand , may be and indirectly thought taught
rewards and punishment.
• Without a family biologically and
sociologically, a person may not even survive
or become a human person.
GENDER AND THE
SELF
• Gender is the self that is subject to alteration
change in development.

• It is one of the most important aspect of self


shaping .

• Gender fluidity is how we identify and


behave yourself that was influenced by the
society.
• The sense of the self that is being taught
to makes sure that an individual fits in a
particular environment.
• Gender has to be personally discovered
and asserted
• not dedicated by culture and society.
• It's something we choose to.
It is important to give one leeway to
express and live his identity.

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