Maria Cecilla N.

Labininay
BSED-2

SOCIAL SELF

● Humans are gregarious, group-based creatures.

● A significant portion of our ‘self’ and its ‘behaviour’ is socially directed and influenced.
● Interpersonal self or social self is part of self that engages face-to-face, in ​relation with
others.
● Social roles Social identity or Societal self can include ethnicity, gender, age, place of
residence or any other social categorization that helps characterize a person’s identity.

Self Concept:

● Cooley’s Symbolic Interaction Theory of Self (Cooley, 1902)

- We create “selves” emerges from our interactions with others and our own
reflections as to how others see us.
- We reflects about ourselves based on how we think other people see us.

Example:

● A child is told he/she is “a good kid”….. Treated as “a good kid” by parents and
relatives…
● The child then believes that he/she is “a good kid”.