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    The SOCIOLOGICAL

    PERSPECTIVES OF THE SELF


    The Self, Society and Culture
    MS. RACQUEL S. MANLAPAS
    GEC1 INSTRUCTOR
    Learning Outcomes
    At the end of the lesson, the students should be
    able to:
    explain the relationship of the self, society
    and culture;
    compare and contrast how social institutions
    and culture affected the formation of the
    self;
    examine one's self against the different
    perspectives in this lesson and various
    experiences of your classmates.
    A group of scientists placed 5 monkeys in a cage
    and in the middle, a ladder with bananas on top.
    Every time a monkey went up the ladder, the scientists
    soaked the rest of the monkeys with cold water
    After a while, every time a monkey went up the ladder,
    the others beat up the one on the ladder.
    After some time, no monkey dared to go up the ladder
    regardless of the temptation.
    Scientists then decided to substitute one of the monkeys.
    The 1st thing this new monkey did was to go up the
    ladder. Immediately the other monkeys beat him up.

    After several beatings, the new member learned not to


    climb the ladder even though it never knew why.
    A 2nd monkey was substituted and the same occured.
    The 1st monkey participated on the beating of the 2nd
    monkey. A 3rd monkey was changed and the same was
    repeated (beating).

    The 4th was substituted and the beating was repeated


    and finally the 5th monkey was replaced.
    What was left was a group of 5 monkeys that even though
    never received a cold water shower, continued to beat up any
    monkey who attempted to climb the ladder.
    If it was possible to ask the monkeys why they would beat
    up all those who attempted to go up the ladder...I bet you
    the answer would be...

    "I don't know - that's


    how things are done
    around here".

    Does this sound familiar?


    Cultural Acquisition of a Specific Learned
    Response among Rhesus Monkey
    An experiment conducted by G.R. Stephenson in 1967
    GEORGE MEAD CHARLES COOLEY ERVING GOFFMAN
    The Social Self The Looking-Glass Self Constructing Situations
    and Drama
    GEORGE MEAD

    The Social Self


    "The self is born of society. The self is
    inseparable from society and bound up
    with communication. It builds on social
    experience. This is largely a matter of
    taking the role of other with increasing
    sophistications , broadening out from
    significant others to greater complexity."
    THE SOCIAL SELF
    created through social interaction
    process started in childhood with
    children beginning to develop a
    sense of self at about the same
    time that they began to learn
    language
    The SELF is the HUMAN CAPACITY to be REFLECTIVE and take the role of others.
    To understand
    intention, you must
    Social experience imagine the situation
    involves from another
    The self emerges
    COMMUNICATION person's point of
    and the exchange view. By taking the
    from SOCIAL
    of symbols. People role of the other:
    EXPERIENCE. It is
    create meaning. THE SELF IS
    not part of the
    REFLECTIVE AND
    body and it does
    REFLEXIVE.
    not exists at birth.
    STAGES IN MEAD'S THEORY ON THE
    DEVELOPMENT OF THE SELF

    GENERALIZED DUAL NATURE


    PREPARATORY GAME STAGE
    PLAY STAGE OTHER OF THE SELF
    STAGE
    PREPARATORY
    STAGE
    Children mimic or
    immitate others.
    PLAY
    STAGE
    Children pretend to play
    the role of a particular or
    a significant other.

    Particular or significant
    other are the perspectives
    and particular role that a
    child learns and
    internalizes.
    GAME
    STAGE
    Children play organized
    games and take on the
    perspectives of the
    generalized other.
    GENERALIZED
    OTHER
    The perspectives and
    expectations of a
    network of others (or a
    society in general) that
    a child learns and then
    takes into account
    when shaping his / her
    own behavior.
    DUAL NATURE
    OF THE SELF
    The belief that we
    experience the self as
    both subject and object,
    the "I" and "ME".
    CHARLES COOLEY
    The Looking-Glass
    Self
    One's sense of self
    depends on seeing
    one's self reflected
    in interactions with
    others.
    THE LOOKING-
    GLASS SELF
    Charles Cooley was George
    Mead's colleague.
    The LOOKING-GLASS SELF
    refers to the notion that the
    self develops through our
    perception of other's
    EVALUATION and APPRAISAL
    of us.
    The image people have of
    themselves is based on how
    they believe others perceive
    them.
    THE LOOKING-GLASS SELF
    How my college How my parents
    friend sees me. sees me.

    How my online
    How my boss
    friend sees me.
    sees me.
    THE LOOKING-GLASS SELF

    We imagine how We imagine how If we think the


    we appear to other people judge evaluation is
    the appearance that favorable, our self-
    other people.
    we think we present. concept is enhanced.
    ERVING GOFFMAN
    Constructing
    Situations and Drama
    People routinely behave
    like ACTORS on a stage.
    Everyday social life
    becomes THEATRICAL.
    There are roles, scripts and
    actions.
    Daily life as a series of
    stagecraft rules.
    PRESENTATION OF THE
    SELF IN EVERYDAY LIFE

    believed that meaning


    is constructed through
    interaction
    INTERACTION
    ORDER is what we do
    in the immediate
    presence of others.
    DRAMATURGY

    focuses on
    individuals take on
    roles and act them
    out to present a
    favorable impression
    to their audience.
    PRESENTATION OF
    THE SELF IN
    EVERYDAY LIFE
    Goffman argues that
    people are concerned
    with controlling how
    others view them, a
    process he called
    IMPRESSION
    MANAGEMENT.
    "All the world is a STAGE,
    and all the men and
    women merely players:
    They have their EXITS
    and their ENTRANCES;
    and one man in his time
    plays many parts."

    -William Shakespeare
    FRONT STAGE
    People play different roles
    throughout their daily
    lives and display different
    kinds of behavior
    depending on where they BACK STAGE
    are and the time of day. When people engage in
    back stage behavior, they
    are free of the
    expectations and norms
    that dictate front stage
    behavior.
    Each definition of a situation lends
    itself to a different approach, and
    the consequences are real.
    The self is a SOCIAL construction
    dependent of the situation.
    Erving Goffman
    Guide Questions
    1. How do you involve yourself in the community,
    society and the world?
    2. Do you think the community, society, and the world
    shape you as a person? How?
    3. How can you relate yourself to your chosen
    sociological perspective?
    4. Do you think sociology contributes to your
    understanding of yourself?
    Lesson and Slides by
    MANLAPAS, R.S.
    9/19/2022

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