THE SELF,

SOCIETY, AND
CULTURE
How much of who you are
now a product of society,
community, and family?
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WHAT IS THE
SELF?
 THE SELF…
SEPARATE distinct from the other selves

SELF-CONTAINED
our self alone can exist, it does not require any other self for it
to exist
INDEPENDENT
particular self’s traits, characteristics, tendencies, and
CONSISTENT potentialities are more or less the same.
center of all experiences and thoughts that run through a
UNITARY certain person

PRIVATE the self is isolated from the external world

MARCEL MAUSS (French Anthropologist)

Every SELF has two faces:

● MOI – person’s sense of who he
is, his body, and his basic identity

● PERSONNE - what it means to live

in a particular institution, a
particular family, a particular
religion, a particular nationality,
and how to behave given
expectations and influences from
others
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THE SELF AND THE
DEVELOPMENT OF
THE SOCIAL WORLD
MEAD AND VYGOTSKY

The way that human person develop is the use

of language acquisition and interaction with
others.

The way we process information is normally a

form of an internal dialogue in our head.

“should I do this or that?” “But if I do this, it will

be like this” “Don’t I want the other option?

Both treat the human mind as something that is

made, constituted through language
SELF IN
FAMILIES

The impact of one’s family is still deemed

as a given in understanding the self.

The kind of family that we are born, the

resources available to us (human,
spiritual, economic), and the kind of
development that we will have will
certainly affect us as we go through life.
SELF IN
FAMILIES
Human persons learn the ways of living
and therefore;

Babies internalize ways and styles that

they observe from their family.
Without a family, biologically
and sociologically, a person
may not even survive or
become a human person.
 GENDER AND THE SELF

The
gendered self
is then
One
Gender is shaped within
maneuvers Gender has
one of those a particular
into the to be
loci of the self context of
society and personally
that is subject time and
identifies discovered
to alteration, space. The
himself as and asserted
change, and sense of self
who he is by and dictated
development. is being
also taking by culture
taught that an
note of and the
individual fits
gender society.
in a particular
identities.
environment.
THANK YOU!