SELF AND

CULTURE
SELF AND
CULTURE
 R
SELF E
Identity
Soul C
Personality A
P
 R
CULTURE E
Customs
Beliefs C
Social Behaviour A
P
 Marcel Mauss

French sociologist and

anthropologist
Mauss viewed gift giving as
binding people together in a
social relationship
Mauss argued that gifts are
never "free."
Mauss distinguished between three obligations:
• Giving: the necessary initial step for the
creation and maintenance of social
relationships
• Receiving: for to refuse to receive is to reject
the social bond
• Reciprocating: in order to demonstrate one's
own liberality, honor and wealth
According to him, self has two faces :
• Moi refers to a person’s sense of who he is

• Personne is composed of the social concepts

of what it means to be who he is
 REFERENCES :
• https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Marcel_Mauss
• https://www.studocu.com/ph/document/negros-oriental-state-
university/understanding-the-self/understanding-the-self/
22167658
• https://people.tamu.edu/~i-choudhury/culture.html
• https://www.philosophytalk.org/blog/self