THE SELF
and
The Culture
Presented by: Benjie R. Alulod Jr.
INSTRUCTOR : MARK CHRISTIAN V. CALUGTONG
QUESTIONS
THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN THE SELF
AND EXTERNAL
WHAT IS SELF?
Self is Separate.
Self is self-contained and
independent.
Self is Consistent
Self is unitary
Self is private.
SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE CONSTRUCTIONIST
Argued that self should not be seen as a
static entity that stays constant through
and through. Rather, the self has to be
seen as something that is in constant
struggle with external reality and is
malleable in its dealings with society.
Self is always in participation with social
life and its dealing with society.
Joshua is a professor in a Catholic
university for more than a decade
now. Anjie was Joshua’s fi rst and
last girlfriend. Apart from being a
husband, Joshua was also blessed
with two kids, a son and a daughter. SCENARIO
He also sometimes serves in the
church as a lector and a
commentator. When Joshua is in the
university, he conducts himself in a
matter that befi ts his title as a
professor.
QUESTIONS
NOTES:
Any opinions
are counted
Is the behaviour of John is and
acceptable.
acceptable and expected
THE SELF AND CULTURE
MARCEL MAUSS
BORN DIED ON
ON MAY FEB. 11,
10, 1950
1872
French Anthropologist
Every self has two faces
MOI
it refers to a person’s sense
of who he is, his body and his
basic identity; his biological
givenness.
PERSONNE
is composed of the social concepts of
what it means to be who he is. It
means to live in a particular
institution, a particular family, a
particular religion, a particular
nationality and how to behave given
the expectation and influence from
others.
SELF
SELF
THE CULTURE OF SELF
Our personne can be illustrated
better cross-culturally.
Language is another
interesting aspect of the social
constructivism
THE SELF AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF
THE SOCIAL WORLD
Recent studies, indicates that
men and women in their growth
and development engage actively
in the shaping of the self.
MEAD AND VYGOTSKY
Human persons develop with the use of
language acquisition and interaction with
others. The way that we process
information is normally a form of an
internal dialogues in our head.
Cognitive and Emotional Development
of a child is always a mimicry of how it is
done in the social world, in the external
reality where he/she is in.
SELF
Human mind as
something that is
made, constituted
through language as
experienced in the
external world and
as encountered in
dialogues with
others.
SELF IN FAMILIES
The Kind of family that we are born in and the
resources available to us will certainly aff ect us
the kind of development that we will have as we
go through life.
Learning, therefore, is critical in our capacity to
actualize our potential of becoming humans. In
trying to achieve a fully realized the goal of
becoming a fully realized human, a child enters a
system of relationship, most important of which
is the family.
SOCIETY FORCES A
PARTICULAR IDENTITY
UNTO US DEPENDING ON
OUR SEX AND/OR
GENDER
