SELF AND CULTURE

Self and Culture

is the remaining the same person and turning chameleon by adopting to ones context seems paradoxical.
Antropologist – Marcewl Mauss
Every self has two faces Personne and Moi.

Moi – refers to a person’s sense of who he is, his body and his basic identity, his biological givenness.
Personne – has much to do with what it means to live in a particular institution, family, religion, nationality,and
how to behave given the expectations and influences from others.

• We do not create ourselves out of nothing society helped in creating the foundations of who we are and we
make our choices, we will still operate in our social and historical contexts in one way or the other.
• Wehter, we like to admit it or not, we actually need others to affirm and reinforce who we think we are. We
also need them as reference points about our identity.
• What we think as important to us may also have been influenced by what is important in our social or
historical context. Education might be an important thing to your self concept because you grew up in a
family that valued education.
 THE SELF AND THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE
SOCIAL WORLD
One is believed to be in active participation of shaping the self.

Mead and Vygotsky.

human persons develop with the use of language acquisition and
interaction with others.