01 ACTIVITY 3

Instructions
Answer the following questions. You may refer to 01 Handout 1.
 By knowing the different models of the self, how possible in your own perspective that it is
rooted from culture?
Culture has a big impact one ones persona or identity. The culture and environment that a
person grow to has an impact on his/her identity as a person. Culture and community has an
impact on a person’s belief, knowledge, traits, values, and principle. Culture helps define how
individuals see themselves and how they relate to others.  Culture shapes how we each see
ourselves and others. For example, some cultures prefer children to be quiet and respectful
when around adults.

 Discuss briefly the theory of Mead’s trilogy (mind, self, and society).Relate with – “The drive to
make sense out of experience, to give it form and order, is evidently as real and pressing as the
more familiar biological needs...", --- Clifford Geertz.
 In the theory of Mead’s trilogy (Mind, Self, and Society) He believed that people
develop their self-images trough interactions with other people. He also argued that our
self, which is part of person’s personality that consists of self-awareness and self-image,
is the result of our social experiences.
 “The drive to make sense out of experience, to give it form and order, is evidently as
real and pressing as the more familiar biological needs...", --- Clifford Geertz. In this,
anthropologist Clifford Geertz says that we, humans, symbolize a meaning-seeking
animals. For Geertz, a human being is an organism that cannot live in the world that we
are unable to understand.
 The relations of this two is that both says that human needs to experience different
things to be able to understand and have an awareness about the true self. Both theory
point out that experiences is the key to understand and know the true self.