SOCIAL SELF

Presented by:
Mary Anne A. Portuguez, MP, RPm
 Selfis defined as a symbol using individual who
can reflect upon his/her own behavior (Franzio,
1996).It covers three things: Body, Social Identity,
and Self
 Itis associated with self-concept and identity. Self-
concept, a collection of beliefs about one’s basic
nature, unique qualities, and typical behavior.

WHAT IS SELF?
Individual’s
sense of identity, the set of beliefs about
what he/she like as an individual (Feldman, 1998).
Product of experience and as a result of the
individual growth process and his personal-social
development (Apruebo, 2005).

MORE DEFINITIONS ON SELF-

CONCEPT
Socialidentity, composed of interpersonal roles
and traits, a particular conception of potentiality
and a structure of values and priorities.
Itrecognizes individuals, categories, and types
of individuals in terms of race, class, and
ethnicity.

DEFINITION OF IDENTITY
 Social
Identity, used to describe identification based on first
appearances.
 Personal
Identity, it refers to biographical details of a given
named individual.
 Ego, Self, or Felt Identity, it describes the self-feelings of the
individual; the subjective sense of meaning the person gives
to his or her personal situation.

IDENTITY CATEGORIES
 CLASSICAL
THEORIES OF SELF
Itoutlined the dimensions of the mature self, and
contended the things become part of the self via
emotional identification.
Differentiate the subjective “I” and the objective “me”

SELF THEORY BY WILLIAM JAMES

Spiritualme. One’s own understanding of selves as
creatures who think, feel, act, and experience life.
Social me. It consists of the recognition that the self can
get from others. James believed that people have several
social me’s.
Material me. It consists of one’s body, valued possessions,
and loved ones. It identifies the self most clearly in terms
of material possessions.

THREE ASPECTS OF “ME”

Itoutlined how the self develops and contended
that it was largely a cognitive process, brought
about through symbolic interaction and role-
taking.
The “I” is the spontaneous actor while “me” is the
self as seen from the imagined perspective others.

SELF THEORY BY GEORGE HERBET MEAD

 SELF ESTEEM
SELF-CONCEPT
Who am I? My sense of self-
worth

THE SELF
SOCIAL SELF
SELF-KNOWLEDGE My roles as a student
How can I explain and family member, and
predict myself? friend; my group
identity

ELEMENTS OF SELF BY DAVID MYERS

 Itwas viewed as product of experience and as a result of the
individual growth process and his personal-social development.
 Self-schema is a belief about the self that organizes and guides
the processing of self relevant information. It summarizes the
personality traits, attitudes, values, interests, and other
characteristics that people attribute to themselves.

SELF-CONCEPT
 Socialinformation refers to influences how a person
perceives, thinks, or evaluates in both oneself and others.
 Self-concept involves self-reference effect and possible
selves as important self-psychological concepts.
 Self-reference
effect, tendency to process efficiently and
remember well information related to oneself.
 Possible
selves, images of what people dream or dread
becoming in the future.

SELF-CONCEPT
Accepted ways in achieving self-fulfillment, and the
perceived relationship between the self and society.

SELF-KNOWLEDGE
 TIME PERIOD WAYS OF ACHIEVING WAYS OF REACHING SELF- RELATIONSHIP BET.
SELF-KNOWLEDGE FULFILLMENT SOCIETY AND SELF
Late Medieval (pre 16th No problem. Self is fixed Salvation will be in heaven Individual is an integral
Century) society. part of the “Great chain of
being”
Early Modern (16th – 18th Self may change other Primary salvation will be in Relationship individual may
Century) people may have two heaven move up or down the
selves of being
Puritan (18th- 19th Century) Self-conscious Salvation predetermined Society recognizes
introspection; self- but individual must individual as saved if he is
deception is possible struggle against inner sin successful at work
and weaknesses
Victorian (mid-19th Repression, hypocrisy, Seek fulfillment alone and Individual exists side by
Century) concern with involuntary through private family life side with or may try to
self-disclosure improve society
Early 20th Century Complete self-knowledge Work is not fulfilling. Individual is hostile to and
recognized as impossible Society prevents self- critical to society.
fulfillment.

SELF-KNOWLEDGE
Know thyself.

Socrates
Itrefers to a person’s overall self-evaluation or sense
of self-worth. It is totally of self-schemas and
possible selves.

SELF-ESTEEM
Itis surrounded by the person’s social roles, social
identities, social comparisons, successes and failures,
social judgment, and the surrounding culture.

SOCIAL SELF
 Herbert Blumer originally exhorts symbolic interaction as
sociological and social psychological approach.
 It
plays a vital role to describe self, attitude, motive, gender, and
emotion.

SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
Preparatory Stage. No role taking, no self.
Play Stage. Children adopt only one role at a time.
Game Stage. Children learn to take the role of many
others.

STAGES OF SELF-DEVELOPMENT BY G. MEAD

 Social roles
 Social identities
 Social comparisons
 Successes and Failures
 Social judgment
 Surrounding culture

INFLUENCES OF SOCIAL SELF

Suggests that people come to be aware of their own
dispositions, emotions, attitudes, and other internal
states in the same way they learn about other people
via observation of behavior.

SELF-PERCEPTION THEORY BY DARYL BEM

 It states mismatching of self-perceptions.
 Tory Higgins pointed out individuals who possess three types
of self-perceptions:
Actual self, the qualities people believe they actually possess.
Ideal self, the characteristics people would like them to have.
Ought self, the traits people believed that they should possess.

SELF-DISCREPANCY THEORY
 Itrefers to inferences that people draw about the causes of
their own behavior.
 Internalattribution, the process of assigning the cause of
behaviour to some internal characteristic, rather than to
outside forces.
 External attribution, the process of assigning the cause of
behaviour to some situation or event outside a person's
control rather than to some internal characteristic.

SELF-ATTRIBUTION BY FRITZ HEIDER

A psychological state in which one takes oneself as an
object of attention. The self is a target of attention and
contemplation. Two types:
 Privateself-awareness. A psychological state in which one
is aware of one’s hidden private self-aspects.
 Publicself-awareness. A psychological state in which one
is aware of one’s public self aspects.

SELF-AWARENESS