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    The document discusses different aspects of self, including material self, economic self, and consumer culture. Material self refers to the physical objects and possessions that reflect a person's identity. As people invest more in material goods, they become more attached to them. Economic self is the ability of individuals and families to consistently meet their financial needs through factors like employment, education, health, and community. The document also examines consumer culture and how an overemphasis on consumption can become less fulfilling and more stressful over time when people define themselves through what they buy and own. Problems with consumerism include its manipulative nature and ability to restrict choices while affecting worldviews in unsustainable ways.

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    The document discusses different aspects of self, including material self, economic self, and consumer culture. Material self refers to the physical objects and possessions that reflect a person's identity. As people invest more in material goods, they become more attached to them. Economic self is the ability of individuals and families to consistently meet their financial needs through factors like employment, education, health, and community. The document also examines consumer culture and how an overemphasis on consumption can become less fulfilling and more stressful over time when people define themselves through what they buy and own. Problems with consumerism include its manipulative nature and ability to restrict choices while affecting worldviews in unsustainable ways.

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    What Is Material Self?

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    WHAT IS MATERIAL

    SELF?
    IT REFERS TO ALL OF THE PHYSICAL
    ELEMENTS THAT REFLECT FOR WHO
    YOU ARE, THE MORE WE INVEST
    OURSELVES IN THESE OBJECTS ,
    THE MORE WE INEVITABLY
    ATTACHED TO THEM ( WILLIAM,
    1890)
    • TANGIBLE OBJECTS ,”MY OR MINE”.

    • NOT SIMPLY THE BODY BUT A MAN’S


    CLOSEST POSSESSIONS AND RELATIVES.
    BODY SELF
    AND
    EXTRACORPOREAL SELF
    BODY SELF
    • Innermost part of the material self
    in each of us
    EXTRACORPOREAL SELF

    According to Rosenberg (1979)


    WHAT IS ECONOMIC
    SELF ?
    ECONOMIC SELF

    The ability of individuals and families to


    consistently meet their needs.
    INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILIES

    • Are able to meet financial needs

    • Do not fall into poverty

    • Have personal savings


    DETERMINANTS OF ECONOMIC SELF
    ■ Job stability
    ■ Educational attainment
    ■ Language Literacy
    ■ Family structure
    ■ Health/Disability Status
    ■ Community Connection
    I SHOP THEREFORE I
    AM
    CONSUMER
    CULTURE
    AT WHAT POINT
    DOES THE
    ACCUMULATION OF
    MATERIAL GOODS
    BECOME LESS
    FULFILLING AND
    MORE STRESSFUL
    AND
    OVERWHELMING?
    WHAT WE BUY?
    WHAT WE CHOOSE
    TO INVEST IN?
    CONSUMPTION
    AND PRODUCTION
    “CONSUME”
    Use up, to spend wastefully, to
    destroy
    CONSCIOUS
    CINSUMPTION
    “VICTIMS”
    “FREE WILL”
    PSYCHOLOGICAL/
    SOCIOLOGICAL
    CONSUMPTION.
    YOUNGER
    GENERATION
    IDENTITY AND
    CONSUMER
    CULTURE
    FACTORS
    “IDENTITY”
    "ALTERNATING TIME-
    SPACE FOR WORK AND
    TIME-SPACE FOR
    CONSUMPTION"
    CULTURE OF
    CONSUMPTION
    UNIVERSAL AND
    IMPERSONAL
    FREEDOM
    “CONSUMERISM”
    Problems with CONSUMERISM
    ■ Intrusive
    ■ Manipulative
    ■ cannot provide many of the things that are important
    to us
    ■ restricts our choices and lives
    ■ affects our worldviews and characters
    ■ unsustainable
    AVOID
    THE
    TRAP
    EXERCISE
    INTELLECTUAL
    INDEPENDENCE

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