THE SELF AND

DEVELOPMENT
OF SOCIAL
WORLD
What's the big idea?
 INTRODUCTION
One is believed be in active participation in the
shaping of the self. Most often, we think the human
person are just passive actors in the whole process of
shaping of selves. That men and women are born with
particularities that they can no longer change. Recent
studies, however, indicate that men and women in
their growth and development engage actively in the
shaping of the self. The unending terrain of
metamorphosis of the self is mediated by language.
"Language as both a public shared and privately
utilized symbol system is the site where the individual
and the social make and remake each other.
(Schwartz, White and Lutz 1993).
Mead and Vygotsky
The way that we process information is normally a form
of internal dialogue in our head.

Treated human mind as something that is made,

constituted through language as experienced in the
external world and as encountered in dialogs with others.

A young child internalizes values, norms, practices, and

social beliefs and more through exposure to
these dialogs that will eventually become part of his
individual world.

For them, a child assumes the other " through language

and role -play.Wgotsky, for his part, a child internalizes
real - life dialogs that he has had with others. They apply
this to their mental and practical problems along with the
social and cultural infusions brought about by the said
dialog
 SELF AND FAMILIES
The kind of family that we are born in, resources
available to us (human, spiritual, economic) and
the kind of development that we will have will certainly
affect us as we go through life. Human persons learn the
ways of living and therefore their selfhood by being in
the family. It is what a family initiates a person to become
that serves as the basis for this person's progress.
Babies internalize ways and styles that they observe
from their family by imitating. The same true
for ways of behaving. Others, such as sex ual behavior
or how to confront emotions, are learn
through subtle means.
Without a family, biologically and sociologically, a person
may not even survive or become a human person.
Self in Families

Apart from the anthropological and psychological basis

for the relationship

between the self and the social world, the sociological

likewise struggled to
understand the real connection between the two
concepts. In doing so, sociologists
focus on the different institutions and powers at play in
the society. Among these,
the most prominent is the family While every child is born
with condition of life, the impact of one's family is still
deemed as a given in understanding the self. The kind of
family that we are born in, the resources available to us
(human, spiritual economic), and the kind of development
that we will have will certainly affect us.
GENDER AND THE SELF
Gender is one of those loci that is subject to alteration, change,
and development. It is important to
give one the leeway to find, express., and live in his identity.
Nancy Chodorow, a feminist, argues that because mothers take
the role of taking care of children,
there is a tendency for girls to imitate the same and reproduce the
same kind of mentality of owmen
as care providers in the family.
Men on the other hand, in the periphery of their own family, are
taught early on how to behave like man.

The gendered self is then shaped within a particular context of

time and space. The sense of self that
is being taught makes sure that an individual fits in a particular
environment.

Gender has to be personally discovered and asserted and not

dictated by culture and the society.
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