POLITICAL SELF

Developing Active Citizenship

POLITICS
NATURE OF POLITICS
• Politics is concerned with power.

• Politics functions based on a particular social economic and cultural

context.

• Political is also PERSONAL.

• Politics goes hand in hand with the society.

POLITICAL SELF
ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP
‘’PARTICIPATION is the fundamental right of
citizenship.’’
GOALS OF ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP
• One’s cognitive and brhavioral engagement to participate in formal
and informal political activities.

• Practice of Democracy

• Social Construct

• Instill change and influence society at large

POLITICAL SELF
FUTURE SELF
Our past, Present and Future
TIME – ORIENTED LENS
CONCEPTS OF THE SELF

• Future-oriented Conceptualization

• Time-oriented Conceptualization
TIME PERSPECTIVE THEORY
Philip Zimbardo (1999)
Five Time Perspectives
1. Present-hedonistic

2. Present-Fatalistic

3. Past-positive

4. Past-negative

5. Future-oriented
THE POSSIBLE SELVES
POSSIBLE SELVES THEORY
Six Philosophical Premises:
1. Possible self is both a motivational resource and behavioral
blueprint of the self.
2. Not all future selves are positive.
3. One’s future self is intertwined with his or her past and present
selves.
4. Future selves are a product of social interactions.
5. Lies in life transitions that have an enabling influence on one’s
future selves.
6. Concepts of proximal and distal goals.