LESSON 2

THE SELF, SOCIETY AND CULTURE

Tarzan and the external reality

What is your most unforgettable/ embarrassing moment?

Characteristics of the self:

1. Separate
2. Self-Contained and independent
3. Consistent
4. Unitary
5. Private

JON & JOAN

The self and the culture

MARCEL MAUSS’ MOI & PERSONNE

Dynamics and capacity for different Personne:

OFW Courtship

Territory as part of who they are;

“Tapat mo, Linis mo”
“Mahal Kita” , “Siya”
 - Language as another interesting aspect of social contructivism.
The self and the development of the social world.

Language – As both a publicly shared and privately utilized symbol system is the
site where the individual and the social make and remake each other.

“ Should I do this or that?”

“But if I do this, it will be like this.”
“Achaka”
“Tapos”

Mead & Vygotsky :

- Human person develop with the use of the language acquisition and
interaction with others.
- Human mind is something that is made, constituted through language as
experienced in the external world and as encountered in dialogues with
others.
DORA?

Self in families;
Family – The most prominent institution and power that plays in the society.
Family – Human, Spiritual, and Economic.
Family – Is is what family initiates a person to become that serves as the basis for
this person’s progress.
Family – Examples; Language, Table manners, Respectful environments,
behaviors, sexual behaviour, confronting problems.

Gender and the self;

- Gender is one of those loci of the self that is subject to alteration change and
development.
- We fight/fought/still fighting for it!
“ Huy, kababae mong tao. Dapat marunong kang…..”
“ Ay, big boy ka na. Hindi dapat umiiyak..”