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”.