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George Herbert Mead proposed that the self is a social construct developed through interaction, consisting of self-awareness and self-image. He identified three stages of development in childhood and introduced the concepts of the 'I' and 'Me' self, as well as the generalized other. Additionally, Henri Tajfel's Social Identity Theory explains how individuals categorize themselves into groups, influencing their identity and social behavior, while postmodern views suggest that the self is constantly redefined by external forces and technology.

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George Herbert Mead proposed that the self is a social construct developed through interaction, consisting of self-awareness and self-image. He identified three stages of development in childhood and introduced the concepts of the 'I' and 'Me' self, as well as the generalized other. Additionally, Henri Tajfel's Social Identity Theory explains how individuals categorize themselves into groups, influencing their identity and social behavior, while postmodern views suggest that the self is constantly redefined by external forces and technology.

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George Mead’s Social Self

Sociologist George Herbert Mead


argued that self is not biological but
social. Self is something that is
developed through social interaction.
The self developed as on grows and
ages
2 Parts of Self According to Mead’s

1. Self- Awareness

2. Self- Image
According to Mead’s, self is not
inborn. Babies cannot interpret the
meaning of other peoples behavior it
is usually learned during childhood in
three stages of development
3 Stages of Development According to Mead’s

 Preparatory stage- A child imitates the


behavior of his or her parents
 Play stage- Involves the child playing the role
of others

 Game Stage- The child comes to see himself


or herself from the perspective of other
people
Mead: The “I” and “Me” self
Phases of self

The “Me” aware of how others see


me; reflecting a censored and partial
role played for others
Mead: The “I” and “Me” self
Phases of self

The “I” is the phase of the self that is


unsocialized and spontaneous. It
is the acting part of self, an
immediate response to other people.
Generalized others

The final stage in the childhood


development process in which
children are able to not only take
on the roles of others, but also take
into account. The attitudes and
perspective of others in their social
The looking-glass self is a
social psychological concept by
Charles Horton Cooley.

The looking glass describes the


process wherein individuals
base their sense of self on how
they believed others view them
Private self, Public self and
collective self

“Private Self or individual


self”
- The cognition that involve traits,
states and believers. It is an
assessment of the self by the self.
Private self, Public self and
collective self

“Public Self”
The cognition concerning the
generalized others view of the self. It
corresponds to an assessment of the
self by the generalized others.
Private self, Public self and
collective self

“Collective Self”
The cognition concerning a view of
the self that is found in membership
in social group, family, co-workers,
tribe, professional, organization.
Social Identity Theory

•It was conceived by Henri Tajfel

•It is defined as the person's sense of


who he or she is according to his or
her membership to a certain group
According to Henry

• The world into “Us” and “Them”


through the process of social
categorization forming the social
group.
• These social groups developed by
William Graham, summer are further
divided into two the in-group and out-
group.

 An in-group is a esteemed social group


commanding a members loyalty.
 An out-group is a scorned social group
to which one feels competition or
opposition.
• Tajfel and Turnel(1986) identified
three mental processes involved
in evaluating others as “Us” and
“Them”.
• Three Mental Process
 Social Categorization- This is similar with how people categorized
things, such as living and non-living, solid, liquid, or gas among
others, in order to understand and identify them.

 Social identification- After learning their category, people adopt


the identity of the group to which they have categorized.

 Social Comparison- After categorizing themselves as a part of the


group and have identified with that groups they tend to compare
that group with other groups.
• Post Modern View of the Self
 Postmodernism is not a philosophy but more of a report on the mindset
of western culture in the latter half of the 20 th century

 For French philosophers Michel Foucault, the self is also seen a


product of modern discourse that is socially and historically condition
(David,2002).

 Anderson 1997 gives four basic postmodernist ideas about the self
 Multiphrenia- which refers to the many different voices speaking about “who
we are and what we are”.
 Protean - self capable of changing constantly to fit the present conditions.
 De-centered a belief that there is no self at all, the self is constantly being
redefined or constantly undergoing change.
 Self-in-relation which means that humans do not live their lives in isolation but
• For Postmodernist, there is no “I” as Maed
Maintained . The self is shaped by outside
forces. Is socially constructed.

• All that matter is now (Wade, 1999). Foucault


describes it as “ the self that turned into a text,
a complex narrative of accomplishments
suffused with discourses”.

• The postmodern social condition is dominated by


two realities! The rise of new media technologies
and the dominance of consumerism
• Lyon (1997) argued that the predicament of
the self in postmodern societies is
complicated by the advent of electronic
mediated virtual, interactions of cyber selves
and spread of information technology.

• “Every little piece of information that you


post on the internet- the message you write,
the websites you visit, the filed you download
and more others are become raw data from
which someone out there can piece together
an identity, a virtual version of who you are”

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