Intended Learning Outcomes

Overview: This lesson discusses the socio-cultural factors that shape oneself. This includes environmental
systems, cultural orientations, and other social factors that play a crucial role in one's social self.
Intended Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the lesson, you should be able to:
1. explain the relationship of the self, society, and culture;
2. compare and contrast how social institutions and culture affected the formation of the self; and
3. examine one's "self" against the different perspectives in this lesson and the various experiences of your
classmates.
PART 1: The Self from Various Perspectives
1. The Sociological-Anthropological PERSPECTIVES
Lesson 2: The Socio-cultural Perspective of the Self
Overview:
This lesson discusses the socio-cultural factor that shape oneself. This includes environmental system, cultural
orientations, and other social factors that play a crucial role in one’s social self.
Intended Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the lesson, students are expected to:
1. Discuss the different socio-cultural perspectives about the shaping of the self;
2. Explain how society/culture affects the development of the self and ultimately your own perception of
the self; and
3. Analyze the socio-cultural factors that influence the development of one’s own behaviors.
Thinking Socio-culturally
 How much of who you are now a product of your society, community, and family?
 Has your choice of school affected yourself now?
 Had you been born into a different family and schooled in a different college, how much of who you are
now would change?
Society and Culture
Social Institutions
What is a social institution?
 Social institutions is a group of social positions, connected by social relation, performing a social role.
 Any institutions is a society that works to socialize the groups of people in it.
 Ex. Universities, governments, families
 And any people or groups that you have social interactions with.
 It is a major sphere of social life organized to meet some human need.
Agents of Socialization
Social Self – Church, Family, Peers, School, Mass Media, Neighborhood; and Workplace
THE SELF EMERGES IN THE PROCESS OF SOCIALIZATION
 The little boy named Tarzan was left in the middle of the forest. Growing up, he never had an interaction
with any other human being but apes and other animals.
 Tarzan grew up acting like apes and unlike human person
 His only interaction with the animals made him just like one of them
THE SELF EMERGES IN THE PROCESS OF SOCIALIZATION
{Feral child raised by wolves} {Abandoned as a toddler, was raised by feral dogs}
 A feral child is a human child who has lived away from human contact from a very young age, and has
little or no experience of human care, loving or social behavior, and, crucially, of human language.
 Feral children are confined by humans (often parents), brought up by animals, or live in the wild in
isolation.
 Genie (born 1957) is the pseudonym of an American feral child who was a victim of severe abuse,
neglect, and social isolation.
 Her circumstances are prominently recorded in the annals of linguistics and abnormal child psychology.
 When she was approximately 20 months old, her father began keeping her in a locked room.
 During this period, he almost always strapped her into a child's toilet or bound her in a crib with her
arms and legs immobilized, forbade anyone from interacting with her, provided her with almost no
stimulation of any kind, and left her severely malnourished.
 The extent of her isolation prevented her from being exposed to any significant amount of speech, and as
a result she did not acquire language during her childhood.
 Her abuse came to the attention of Los Angeles County child welfare authorities in November 1970,
when she was 13 years and 7 months old, after which she became a ward of the state of California.
Is there a critical period for language development?
 Critical Period: Particular time in which something needs to be learned
 Children who have not been exposed to a language by age 7 gradually lose their ability to produce any
language (including sign language)
o Brain’s language capacity never fully develops
 The older we get, the harder it is to learn a new language