SELF FROM

SOCIOLOGICAL
PERSPECTIVE

Keithlyn M. Bay, RPm

 HOW WOULD
YOU DESCRIBE
THE WORD
"SELF"?
SELF
Separate

Self contained and Independent

Consistent

Unitary

Private
SELF AND CULTURE
Marcel Mauss
Self

Personne Moi

Language
SOCIOLOGY
is one of the disciplines of
sciences which aim to
discover the ways by
which the social
surrounding/ environment
influences people’s
feelings, thoughts, and
behavior.
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD
(1863-1931)
Born February 1863 in
Massachusetts, USA.

Graduated and taught grade

school at Oberlin College.
1887 – He enrolled in Harvard
University. (interest were
Psychology and Philosophy)
SOCIAL
BEHAVIORISM
is the approach George
Herbert Mead used to
describe the power of
environment in human
behavior.
SELF

a ‘dimension of personality
that is made- up of the
individual’s self-
awareness and self-
image’
MEAD’S STAGES OF SELF
FORMATION
MEAD’S THEORY OF THE SELF
THE “I” AND “ME” SELF
"I" SELF
When the person initiates or
performs a social action, the
self functions as a subject.
This subjective element of the
self is the “I”.
"ME" SELF
When the person takes the
role of the other, the self
functions as an object. The
objective element of the self
is the “Me”.
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY
(1846-1929)
He was an American
Sociologist who made use of
the Sociopsychological
approach to understand how
society works.
In his written work, Human Nature and
the Social Order (1902), he discussed the
formation of self through interaction.

“I am not what I think

I am. I am not what
YOU think I am. I am
who I think YOU think
I am.”
HOW I APPEAR
TO OTHERS?
 WHAT MUST
OTHERS THINK
OF ME?
THREE PHASES OF A
DEVELOPING SELF

People imagine People imagine People develop

how they present how others some sort of
themselves to evaluate them. feeling about
others.
themselves as


result of those
impressions.
ERVING GOFFMAN (1922-1982)

He was a Canadian- American

sociologist known for his role
in the development of
Modern American Sociology.
One of his popular work was Presentation
of the Self in Everyday Life.

He quoted, “People, early

in their social interaction
learned to slant their
presentation of
themselves in order to
create preferred
appearances and satisfy
particular people.”
Goffman sees similarities of real social
interaction to a theatrical presentation, he
labelled it dramaturgical approach.

He referred to this
process of altering how
the person presents
himself to others as
impression management.
SELF IN FAMILIES

it is a family initiates a
person to become that
serves the basis for this
person's progress
GENDER AND THE
SELF

Gender is one of those loci

of the self that is subject
for alteration, change and
development
NANCY CHODOROW

mothers take the role of

taking of children, there is a
tendency that girls to imitate
the same
 OBA 3
Reflection Paper:
How is my self-shaped and influenced by
cultured?

Deadline: Next Meeting