Lesson 7

Topic: identity and Personality Formation

Personality vs. Identity

- Personality is something you were born with.
- It's a matter of nature (genetics) and nurture (development), where personality defines
how you think (cognition), how you feel (emotions) and how you act (behavior).

Identity
- Special identities are created through our beliefs and attitudes, so they are constructed
later in our developmental stage, and they are multidimensional.

In other words, Personality is the body you have, and Identity is the clothes you wear.

Determinants of Personality Formation

- Panopio (1994) suggested some determinants which influence the personality formation
of the individual.

1. Biological Inheritance
- Transmission from parents to offspring through the mechanisms of genes

2. Geographic Environment
- It pertains to the places, climate, topography, and natural resources.

3. Cultural Environment
- A guide for the individual by providing one with models.

Personality is shaped according to and depending on one’s culture and subculture.

4. Social Environment
- Refers to the various groups and social interactions going on in the groups of
which one is a member according to Panopio (1994).

Lesson 8
Topic: Humanization and Homonization

Since the time Charles Darwin published his book, On the Origin of Species, in 1859 a
revolutionary idea had swept the scientific community.

Homonizaton
- For humans, history started at Hominization, or Evolutionary development of human
characteristics that made hominids (organisms belonging in the Homo genus) distinct
from their primate ancestors.
 A. Homo Habilis
- Known as ;handyman’ is a species of the genusHomo.
B. Homo Erectus
- He made a fire and knew how to control it. Homo erectus was carnivorous.
They were cave dwellers.
C. Homo Sapiens (Neanderthalensis & Sapiens)
- They were carnivores & omnivores. The tools from the era indicate they were
hunters.

Humanization
- Improving the humans’ everyday living

A. Preindustrial Societies
- Before the Industrial Revolution and the widespread use of machines, societies
were small, rural, and dependent largely on local resources.

1. Hunter-Gatherer
- These groups were based around kinship or tribes. They hunted wild
animals and foraged for uncultivated plants for food.
2. Pastoral Society
- They rely on the domestication of animals as a resource for survival.
3. Horticultural Society
- Horticultural societies formed in areas where conditions allowed them to
grow stable crops.
4. Agricultural Society
- Agricultural societies relied on permanent tools for survival.
- “Dawn of civilization”
5. Feudal Society
- Hierarchical system of power based around land ownership and
protection.

B. Industrial Society
- What made this period remarkable was the number of new inventions that
influenced people’s daily lives.

- Masses of people were moving to new environments and often found themselves
faced with horrendous conditions of filth, overcrowding, and poverty.

C. Postindustrial or Information Societies

- Information societies, sometimes known as postindustrial or digital societies, are
recent development.
- Information societies are based on the production of information and services.