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CHAPTER 1-Lesson 2

The document discusses the relationship between the self, society, and culture. It states that the self is shaped by social and cultural forces through language, family, gender roles, and interaction with others from a young age. The self has two aspects - the "moi" or basic identity, and the "personne" which is composed of social concepts of identity. Culture influences the self, and through processes like socialization, language acquisition, and dialog with others described by theorists like Mead and Vygotsky, individuals learn the norms of their society and develop their sense of self in a social context.

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CHAPTER 1-Lesson 2

The document discusses the relationship between the self, society, and culture. It states that the self is shaped by social and cultural forces through language, family, gender roles, and interaction with others from a young age. The self has two aspects - the "moi" or basic identity, and the "personne" which is composed of social concepts of identity. Culture influences the self, and through processes like socialization, language acquisition, and dialog with others described by theorists like Mead and Vygotsky, individuals learn the norms of their society and develop their sense of self in a social context.

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CHAPTER 1: LESSON 2:

THE SELF, SOCIETY AND


CULTURE
Objectives:
□ Explain the relationship between and among the self,
society, and culture;
□ Describe and discuss the different ways by which
society and culture shape the self;
□ Compare and contrast how the self can be influenced
by the different instituitions in the society; and
□ Examine one’s self against the different views of self
that were discussed in the class.
INTRODUCTI
Across time and history, the self hasON
been debated,
discussed, and fruitfully or otherwise conceptualized
by thinkers in Philosophy.
Thinkers put an halt on speculative debates on
the relationship between BODY AND SOUL:
MIND AND SOUL.
The debate shifted into another discussion given
the new ways of knowing and the growth of the
social sciences. One of the most important axis of
analysis is the relationship between external
reality and the self?
WHAT IS THE SELF?
CHARACTERISTICS
❖Separate means that the self is distinct from other selves. The self is
always unique and has its own identity.
❖Self-contained and independent because in itself it can exist. Its
distinctness allows it to be self-contained with its own thoughts,
characteristics, and violation.
❖Consistency means that a particular self’s traits, characteristics,
tendencies, and potentialities are more or less the same.
❖Unitary in that it is the center of all experiences and thoughts that run
through a certain person.
❖Private means that each person sorts out information, feelings and
emotions, and thought processes within the self. This whole process is
never accessible to anyone but the self.
THE SELF AND THE
CULTURE
CULTURE
defined as all the ways of life including
arts, beliefs and institutions of a
population that are passed down from
generation to generation. Culture has
been called "the way of life for an entire
society." As such, it includes codes of
manners, dress, language, religion,
rituals, art. norms of behavior, such as
law and morality, and systems of belief.
SELF
The self is an individual person as the object of its own reflective consciousness. Since the
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self is a reference by a subject to the same subject, this reference is necessarily subjective.
According to Marcel Mauss, every self
has two faces; PERSONNE and MOI.

❖ Moi refers to a person’s


sense of who he is, his body,
and his basic identity, his
biological givenness.

MARCEL MAUSS
❖ Personne is composed of the
social concepts of what it
means to be who he is.
❖ Language
is another interesting aspect of this social constructivism;
it is a salient part of culture and ultimately, has a
tremendous effect in our crafting of the self.

❖ If a self is born into a particular society or culture, the


self will have to adjust according to it exposure.
THE SELF AND THE DEVELOPMENT
OF THE SOCIAL WORLD
How do people actively produce their social worlds? How
do humans growing up become social beings?
❖ More than his givenness (personality, tendencies, and
propensities, among others), one is believed to be in active
participation in the shaping of the self.

❖ Men and women in their growth and development engage


actively in the shaping of the self.

❖ The unending terrain of metamorphosis of the self is


mediated by language.
Lev Semyonovich
George Herbert
Vygotsky
Mead
❖ For Mead and Vygotsky, the way that human persons develop is
with the use of language acquisition and interaction with others.

❖ Both Vygotsky and Mead treat the human mind as something that
is made, constituted through languages as experienced in the
external world and as encountered in dialogs with others.

❖ According to Mead, it is through this and that a child delineates


the “ I” from the rest. Vygotsky, for his part a child internalizes
real- life dialogs that he has had with others, with his family, his
primary caregiver or playmates.
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SELF IN
FAMILI
ES
❖ The kind of family that we are born in, the resources available to
us (human, spiritual, economic), and the kind of development that
we will have will certainly affect us.
❖ Human beings are born virtually helpless and the dependency
period of a human baby to its parents for nurturing is relatively
longer than most other animals.
❖ In trying to achieve the goal of becoming a fully realized human, a
child enters a system of relationships, most important of which is
the family.
❖ Human persons learn the ways of living and therefore their
selfhood by being in a family. It is what a family initiates a person
to become that serves as the basis for this person’s progress.
GENDER AND THE SELF
❖ Gender is one of those loci of the self that is subject to
alternation, change, and development. Weal have seen in past
few years fought hard for their right to express, validate and
assert their gender expression.

❖ The sense of self that is being taught makes sure that an


individual fits in a particular environment, is dangerous and
detrimental in the goal of truly finding one’s self,
self-determination, and growth of the self.

❖ Our gender partly determines how we see ourselves in the


world.
❖ Slight modifications have been on the way due to feminism
and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)
activism but for the most part , patriarchy has remained to
be at work.

❖ Gender has to be personally discovered and asserted and


not dictated by the culture and the society.
REPORTERS:
1. ANTIQUINA, KAREN
2. CARTALLA, LUCILLE A.
3. ESQUILLO, MAXENE CLAIRE Y.
4. PATA, ROSALIND A.
THANKS

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