COMPILATION OF LEARNINGS

IN UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

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Name: Carmela Danday

Section: BSE-SS1
The Chapter 1: the self from
various perspective
" Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but
reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful of
happy"
--Norman Vincent Peale
Topic: philosophy
This chapter is getting to know yourself. It pertains that ourselves has
many aspects.These aspects make up the integral parts such as the self
awareness ,self knowledge , self -esteem and self perception. With these
aspects , the persons is able to alter , change, add and modify himself for
the purpose of gainning social acceptance . And this chapter allowing
students to appreciate learning with enriching and creative and different
activities to exercise the mind. It enables to develop high critical order
thingking skills.
How well do you know yourself? Are you aware of your skills and
abilities?
The persistent question "who am I?" when people are asked to explained
thier understanding of the word ,the usual answer is "Its me", its make
me unique and different from everyone else. There are more
understanding of the self that important philosopher from ancient to
contemporary times sought to described the essential qualities that
compose a person's uniqueness. On the other hand , Sociology sees the
self as a product of interactions and relationship of others, it develop
over time through social experience and different activities in
environment.

This course of study is intended in understanding one's self. It facilitate

the explorations of the issues and concerns regarding the self . There are
challenges and trials of experience in everyday life. But we can survive it
and go with the flow ,no matter what happen in life .We are filipino a
strong and brave of ourselves in facing the difficulties.And every life
experience ,we are happy and enjoy our life because we are contented
of what we have.And sometimes we are making better learnings
,generating a new appreciation for the learning process. And developing
a more critical attitude while enabling them and improve themeselves to
attain a better future life.
And this course gives us strength and knowledge to know will to
ourselves of what the things to be consider and to help students be
productive in school and other extra activities .And this lesson provide a
different learnings in life that buils us a better person.It consider
behavior or attitudes and social interactions with others. It teaches us to
be more productive and enables them to get hands on experiences in
developing self and help to plan for self learning and goal im life.

The first part or the chapter 1 of the book require students to

understand the self from various disciplinal perspective ,philosophy
,anthropology, sociology and psychology as well as the more information
between the east and west it gives idea and the concept of self.

The Second part explores some of the various aspects that make up the
self such as the biological and material up to and including the more
recent digital sel.
And the Third part it identifies the various concerns of young students
.And pertains learning goal setting and managing stress. It also provide
the analytical and practical of the self concepts that discussed in this
course. And enables to have a knowleged and lesson in life.
Chapter 2: Unpacking the Self
Don't be little yourself. Be big your self "- corita kent

Topic: The Physical Self

All the lessons in chapter 2, only one topic that cought my attention and
perceive how i feel about my physical appearance and sense of how the
other people view our physical bodies. And how you appreciated your
own beauty but beauty defined in so many ways , im its simplest sense ,
beauty can be described as happiness.

The word "BEAUTY" actually defines the beauty in our character in our
nature but not our external appearance. ... beauty doesn't define the
real meaning of beauty. The beauty of a person depends on his or her
thoughts,actions and character. Though external beauty has a value but
our internal beauty dominates it.

It was in that moment that I finally understood the meaning of beauty.

Beauty is not a physical thing; the things that make a person beautiful
cannot be seen with the eyes, they must be felt with the heart.

I still struggle with my body image and when I get really stressed, I fixate
on my skin. But I now know that my fixation is not reality and that when I
am seeing physical imperfections, the people who love me are seeing
courage, strength and true inner beauty.

Does anyone else live with body image issues? If so, I challenge you to
close your eyes, look beneath your skin and discover ten things that truly
make you beautiful
Chapter 3: Managing and caring for
the Self
Topic:The Role of Social Class, Race, and Gender in Socail Stress.

growing area in sociology investigates the social causes and

consequences of mental health and illness. The social causes of mental
illness have included disadvantaged social statuses and stress. Social
stress theory became prominent in the 1980s and continues to guide
many sociological studies. This perspective asserts that mental health
problems are caused by exposure to social stress (based on social
statuses and earlier life experiences), as well as vulnerability to stress (a
limited ability to cope because of low levels of social support, self-
esteem, or mastery). The literature on the social determinants of mental
health has focused on a variety of social statuses, such as socioeconomic
status, gender, age, and race/ethnicity. Research on disadvantaged
socioeconomic status and mental illness emerged in the late 1950s. In
recent decades, longitudinal studies on the temporal ordering of the
relationship between socioeconomic status and mental health have
tested the competing hypotheses of social causation and social
selection/drift. In the mid-1970s, sex-role theory stimulated controversy
about the prevalence rates and explanations for why females are more
likely to have internalized mental disorders (e.g., depression) and males
are more likely to have externalized disorders (e.g., substance
abuse/dependence). This debate about gender differences in mental
illness was revisited recently with national and cross-national data. Since
the early 1980s, life course theory has informed research on the
influence of age on mental health. Studies on the relationship between
racial/ethnic status and mental health have begun to proliferate. Yet the
accumulated evidence of racial/ethnic mental health disparities remains
inconclusive. Since the 1960s, the negative social consequences of being
diagnosed with a mental illness have continued to be addressed by
sociological theories about labeling and stigma. Sociologists have also
critically examined the organization of mental health care, treatment
utilization, and public policies. Another important contribution of
sociologists is medicalization theory, which elucidates the social
construction of mental illnesses with an examination of how deviant
thoughts, feelings, and behaviors have been transformed into symptoms
to be treated medically. More recently, a debate erupted among
sociologists about how to measure mental health and illness. Overall, the
readings here show the development of research and theories in the
sociology of mental illness by highlighting groundbreaking studies and
controversies. In contrast to the biological perspective, which targets
genetics and a chemical imbalance in the brain as the causes of mental
illness, the sociological perspective emphasizes the influence of society
via social contexts, relationships, roles, and statuses.