THE SELF,SOCIETY,
AND CULTURE
Presented By : Group 2
OBJECTIVES
AT THE END OF THIS LESSON,YOU SHOULD ABLE
TO;
•Explain the relationship between and among the self,
society and culture;
Describe and discuss the diffesrent ways by which
society and culture shape the self;
OBJECTIVES
•Compare and contrast how the self can
influenced by the different institutions in the
society; and
•Examine one's self againts the different
views of self that were discussed in the class.
What is the relationship between
external reality and the self?
INTRODUCTION
Across time and history the self has been
debated,discussed and fruitfully
conceptualized by different thinkers in
various philosophy.
With the advent of social sciences,it became
possible for new ways and paradigms to re examine the true nature of self.
What is Self ?
What is Self ?
In contemporary literature and in common
sense ;
self is equated to being seperate ,self
contained,independent ,self
contained,independent,consistent,unitary,
and private.
SELF IN CONTEMPORARY
LITERATURE;
•Separate
•Self-contained and independent
•Consistent
•Unitary
•Private
SOCIAL CONTRUCTIVISTS
✓Argues for the merge view of the person and their
social context.
✓The self has to be seen something that is in increasing
flux ,in a constant struggle with the external reality and
is malleable in its dealing with society.
SOCIAL CONTRUCTIVISTS
✓ We ourselves play different
roles,act in different ways
depending on our circumstances.
Marcel Mauss
•French Anthropologist
•Explain that the self has
two faces
Personne
-composed of the social
concepts of what it means
to be who he is.
Moi
refers to a person's sense of
who he is,his body,and his
basic identity,his biological
givenness.
CULTURE
• An expansive set of material and symbolic
processes such as world ,environment ,context,
cultural system, social system, social structures
,institutions,practices ,policies,norms and values
that give form and direction to our behavior.
•Product of human activity
CULTURE
• Each individuals activity as well as thoughts
,feelings, and actions of those who came before the
person
• DYNAMIC
>Constantly invented, accumulated ,and changed
overtime
>Selves are dynamic in that change as the various
cultural content that engage in change.
CULTURE
• If a self is born into a particular
society or culture ,then the self will have
to adjust according to exposure.
THE SELF AND THE DEVELOPMENT
OF THE SOCIALWORLD
✓LANGUAGE
⚬ A salient part of culture
⚬ Has tremendous effect in crafting the self
⚬ One of the reasons culture divide accounts for
the differences on how one regards one's self
⚬ unending metamorphosis of the self
THE SELF AND THE DEVELOPMENT
OF THE SOCIALWORLD
*Language both publicly shared and
privately utilized symbol system is the site
where the individual and the social make
and remake each other.(Schwarts,White
,Luts,1993).
Lev Vygotsy
•Believed that the child internalizes reallife dialogues that he has with others
,with his family ,his primary caregiver , or
his playmates .They apply this to their
mental practical problem solving.
Lev Vygotsy
•Notice how children become
what they watch and they can
easily adapt ways of cartoon
characters they are exposed to.
THE SELF IN FAMILIES
• Sociological perspective struggles to
understand the real connection between
the concept of the SELF and the SOCIAL
WORLD .In doing so ,sociologists focus on
the different institutions and powers at
play in society . Among these ,the most
prominent is the FAMILY.
•Human person 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.
•Without a family ,biologically and
sociologically , a person may not even survive or
become a human person .One is who he is
because of his family for the most part.
• Another important aspect of the "self " is
GENDER
•Gender is one of those loci (locus)of the self that
is subject to alteration,change,and development.
•From the point-of-view of the social
sciences and the self,It is important to
give one the leeway to find, express,and
live his identity.this forms part of the
selfhood that one cannot just dismiss.
• One maneuvers into the society and identifies
himself as who he is by also taking note of gender
identities.
Thank You for
Listening!
GROUP MEMBERS
CATHERINE M. AYENZA
KARYLLE FAITH C. OREN
HANAH RUTH G. DAGGAY
CARLOS MIGUEL CASTILLO