“WHO AM I?

SOCIAL SELF
THEORY and SELF
PRESENTATION
Social Psychology - Lecture
Claire L. Bautista, MS
September 25, 2021
8AM-11AM
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WHAT IS SOCIAL SELF THEORY?

• George Herbert Mead, a sociologist from the late 1800s is well known for his
theory of the social self, which includes the concepts of “SELF”, “ME”, and “I”.

• Is based on the perspective that the self emerges from social interactions, such
as observing and interacting with others, responding to others’ opinions about
oneself, and internalizing external opinions and internal feelings about oneself.

• Self is not there from birth, but it is developed over time from social
experiences and activities

• People develop self-image through interactions with other people

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DEVELOPMENT OF SELF

• LANGUAGE
• Develops self by allowing individuals to respond to each other through symbols, gestures, words, and sounds.

• Conveys other’s attitudes and opinions toward a subject or the person

• Emotions such as anger, happiness and confusion are conveyed through language

• PLAY
• Develops self by allowing individuals to take on different roles, pretend, and express expectation of others.

• Play develops one’s self-consciousness through role-playing.

• During role-playing, a person is able to internalize perspective of others and develop an understanding of how others
feel about themselves and others in a variety of social situations

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DEVELOPMENT OF SELF

• GAMES
• Develop self by allowing individuals to understand and adhere to the rules of the
activity
• Self is developed by understanding that there are rules in which one must abide
by in order to win the game or be successful at an activity

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TWO SIDES OF SELF: I and ME

• The ‘me’ is considered the socialized aspect of the individual

• The ‘me’ represents learned behaviors, attitudes and expectations of
others and of society
• Generalized other, a phase of the self that is in the past

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TWO SIDES OF SELF: I and ME

• The ‘I’, therefore can be considered the present and future phase of the
self
• The ‘I’ represents the individual’s identity based on response to the ‘me’
• The ‘I’ says okay. Society says I should behave and socially interact one
way, and I think I should act the same (or perhaps different) and that
notion becomes self

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Stages of Role-taking process

• Preparatory Stage
• 1st stage, lasts from the time we are born until we are about age two
• Children mimic those around them
• Children most likely done is memorized the book that had been read to him or her

• Play Stage
• 2 to 6 years old; children are in the play stage
• Children play pretend and do not adhere to the rules in organized games like soccer or freeze tag
• Children just go with any “rules” they come up with during the course of the game than trying to
enforce any “rules” upon them
• Children play pretend as the significant other; means that when they play house, they are literally
pretending to be the mommy or the daddy that they know

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Stages of Role-taking process

• Game Stage
• 3rd stage, about age 7 onwards
• Children can begin to understand and adhere to the rules of games
• Children most likely done is memorized the book that had been read to him or
her

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 CHARLES
HORTON
COOLEY

LOOKING-GLASS
THEORY
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY

• The Looking-Glass Self

• The process wherein individuals base their sense of self on how they believe
others view them

• Cooley’s concept of the looking glass self, states that a person’s self grows out of
a person’s social interactions with others

• The idea is that people in our close environment serve as the ‘mirrors’ that reflect
images of ourselves

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It is described as
our reflection of
how we think we
appear to others

Example:
One’s mother would view their child as
flawless, while another person would think
differently
Three Elements of Looking-Glass Self

• The imagination of our appearance to other person

• The imagination of his judgment of that appearance

• Some sort of self-feeling, such as pride or mortification

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SELF PRESENTATION
Refers to how people attempt to present themselves to
control or shape how others (called audience) view them
SELF PRESENTATION

• It involves expressing oneself and behaving in ways that create a desired

impression

• It is part of a broader set of behaviors called impression management

• Impression management refers to the controlled presentation of information

about all sorts of things, including information about other people or events

• Self-presentation refers specifically to information about the self

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Five Self-Presentation Strategies

• Jones and Pittman (1982) proposed that individuals typically used five
self-presentation tactics:
• Self promotion
• Ingratiation
• Supplication
• Intimidation
• exemplification

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Three Basic Group of Self Presentation strategies

• Individual personal factors

• Inter-individual factors
• Situation (of social environment) factors

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