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Understanding Self, Society, and Culture

This document discusses the relationship between the self, society, and culture. It defines the self as separate, self-contained, independent, consistent, and private. However, society and culture shape the self through language, social interactions, families, and concepts of gender. The self has two components - personal identity (moi) and social identity (personne) influenced by culture. By interacting with others, children learn social roles that help form their sense of self. Different institutions like family also influence how individuals see themselves in relation to the world.

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Understanding Self, Society, and Culture

This document discusses the relationship between the self, society, and culture. It defines the self as separate, self-contained, independent, consistent, and private. However, society and culture shape the self through language, social interactions, families, and concepts of gender. The self has two components - personal identity (moi) and social identity (personne) influenced by culture. By interacting with others, children learn social roles that help form their sense of self. Different institutions like family also influence how individuals see themselves in relation to the world.

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THE SELF,

SOCIETY and
CULTURE
Dian N. Olango, LPT
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 culture shape 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 class.
INTRODUCTION

● Thinkers just settled on the idea that there are


two components of the human person
● Whatever relationship these two have is les
important than the fact that there is self.
● One of the most important axis of analysis is the
relationship between self and the external world
WHAT IS THE SELF?
● Separate, self-contained, independent, consistent, unitary and
private

● SEPARATE – it means that the self is distinct from other selves


● SELF-CONTAINED and INDEPENDENT – it does not require other self for it to
exist
● CONSISTENTENCY – it has a personality that is enduring and therefore can
be expected to persist for quite some time.
● UNITARY – it is the center of all experiences and thoughts that run through
a certain person
● PRIVATE – sorts out information, feelings and emotions, and thought
processes within the self
THE SELF and CULTURE

● French Anthropologist MARCEL MAUSS states that


every self has two faces: PERSONNE and MOI.

● MOI – a person’s basic identity (person’s sense of


who he is, his body, his biological givenness)
● PERSONNE – composed of the social concepts of
what it means to be who he is.
LANGUAGE

● Is a salient part of culture and


ultimately, has a tremendous effect
in crafting of the self.
THE SELF and the DEVELOPMENT of
the SOCIAL WORLD
● More than his givenness, one is believed to be in active
participation in the shaping of the self

● GEORGE HERBERT MEAD


- A child conceptualizes his notion of “self” through this.

● LEV VYGOTSKY
- A child internalizes real-life dialogs that he has had with others
SELF in FAMILIES
● The most prominent institution in the
society.
● Without a family, biologically and
sociologically, a person may not even
survive or become a human person.
GENDER and SELF

● One of the loci of the self that is subject to


alteration, change and development.
● It partly determines how we see ourselves in the
world
● It has to be personally discovered and asserted
and not dictated by culture and the society
ACTIVITY NO. 2

● WRITE ATLEAST 1 PERCEPTION OF YOURSELF.


● LET YOUR CLASSMATES WRITE THEIR PERCEPTION
OF YOU (ATLEAST 5)
● COMPARE WHAT YOU WROTE ABOUT YOURSELF
TO THOSE WRITTEN BY YOUR CLASSMATES?
● WHAT ASPECTS ARE SIMILAR OR NOT?
ASSIGNMENT NO.3

● WATCH THE MOVIE ENTITLED: “THE THREE


IDIOTS”
● WRITE A REFLECTION ABOUT THE MOVIE
● FORMAT WILL BE GIVEN TO IMPLEMENT
UNIFORMITY
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