Understanding The Self 113 2019-2020: Mr. Michael Angelo Liwanag, RPM

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UNDERSTANDING THE SELF 113 2019-2020

Mr. Michael Angelo Liwanag, RPm
“HUMAN BEING”
THE STUDY
STUDY OF
OF HUMAN IN
GENERAL.
- How humans adapt to differeny environment and
how humans evolves from other animals.
- Explains similarities and differences that are found
among humans across the globe.
- Understand the many aspects of human experiences.
- They also try to understand the perspectives,
practices, and social organizations of other groups
that values and who's life ways are different.
- Seeks meaning and interpretation of the data that is
collected and understand how people interpret and
what kind of meaning are made in the society.
- They also studies how make us humans by studying

human ancestors through archeological excavation to
see how human groups lives hundred of years ago and
what was important to them.
- How peiople interacts in social environment. They
look at the different ways people dress and
communicate to different societies. They compare to u
derstand the society meaning.
- It also studies how people evolve, how they onteract

and how they communicate.
- Human evolutions and physical aspects of
human beings.
- Concerns with human artifacts and material
cultures.
- Concern with ethnography among
living groups.
ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONCEPTUALIZATION OF SELF
- KILJOY J. OLDSTER
- Considered as one of the most complex
areas of discipline.
- It explores the various meanings of CULTURE,
SELF and IDENTITY.
Qualities, beliefs that Beliefs, arts, way of
makes a person unique. thinking, life of a
The person that someone normally and truly particular society or
is. group.
- Is concerned with how cultural and biological
process interacts to shapes human experiences.
- Possesses a holistic and integrated approach in
examining nature of human.
- Consider human experience as an interplay of
NATURE and NURTURE.
Referring to the genetic
Referring to the
inheritance which sets
sociocultural
the individual's
environment.
potentials.
- Also contributed to the understanding of the nature
of self through ethnographic investigations (e.g.,
sampling method, sentence completion, interviews)
that discuss the cultural variations that may affect
one's mental state, language and behavior.
- The best contribution is to provide insights into
nature of self based on continous understanding to
the basic elements of cultures.
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- Complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs,
arts, morals, laws and other capabilities and habits
acquired by man as a member of the society.
ANTHROPOLOGISTS:
- Culture is not a behavior itself, it is a shared
understanding that guide behaviors.
- Way of life (Different meaning of self).
- Concept of self is to ethnic identity.
- Sameness of the self with others.
- Consciousness of sharing certain characteristics (e.g.,
language, beliefs. etc) within a group.
- Identity is understood as a disposition of basic
personality features acquired during childhood.
INDIVIDUAL:
- Robot or an entirely independent self willed.
CULTURAL INDIVIDUAL:
- Exist in freedom but also embodying that culture
mold in which he is move in an particular society.
ROBBINS, 2012
- Self is seen as an autonomous and distinct
individuals with inherent characteristics.
- Each person is defined as a replica of all humanity
but capable of acting independently from others.
- Self is contingent on a situation or social
setting.
- Self is based on what might or might not
happen in a situation.
- Japanese posess a sociocentric view of the self
which the membership of the person defines the
boundaries of the self.
- For them, social interactions should be
characterized by restraint.
- Interdependence between group and person is
more valued than independence.
- Chinese prioritize kin ties and cooperations.
- The essense of interpersonal relationship is
mutual dependence.
- They do not value self-reliance.
- Americans believe that they should be
assertive and independent.
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ANTHROPOLOGY
Another important and
essential determinant of
identity.
- Refers to the features of a person's identity that
he or she chooses to emphasize in constructing
social self. Most significant features for
identification.
- Self identification may be attained by: Kinship,
family member, gender, age, language, religion,
personal appearance and socio economic status.
Not always used in other society.
- Religious affiliation is an important
marker of group identity.
- In Mindanao, being a muslim or
christian is the most important defining
feature of one's identity.
Important device to individualize Represent his cultural self.
a person and legitimize him as a Many cultures mark naming of
member of society. a child in a ceremony.
- Personal naming or name, a universal
practice with numerous cross cultural
variations establishes a child's birthright and
social identity.
- Changes in one's identity usually involve
rites of passage that prepares individuals for
new roles from one stage to another.
- Not consider the infant as human until a
name is given.
- When the child is 2 years old and can
speak the language, ceremony will be
arise.
- Transitions of nature to culture.
- Name infant soon after birth.
- Paternal name as its last name (Patronyms)
- Boy's name is added with a suffix SEN.
- Female name is added with suffix DOTTIR
- Children inherit mother's family name.
- Children named after their deceased

relatives or admirable qualities.
STUDYING CULTURE
- Stressed the importance of the groups, community and social
cooperations.
- Turn to family and friends for support during difficult times.
- People sacrifice their own comfort and happiness for the
greater good of everyone.
INDIVIDUALIST AND COLLECTIVIST

- Individualist prizes things such as uniqueness, independence,
self-sufficiency, autonomy.
- Stressed that peoples should be able to solve problems or
accomplish goals in their own without having to rely on
asisstance from others.
- Religious affiliation is an important
marker of group identity.
- In Mindanao, being a muslim or
christian is the most important defining
feature of one's identity.
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Help a person adjust from one social
dimension of his or her life tothe others.
RITE OF
PASSAGE
ARNOLD VAN GENNEP

- People detach from their former identity to
another.
During wedding, the bride walking the aisle to be given

away to the by the parents to the groom.
- Person transitions from one identity to
another.
Wedding ceremony is a process of transition from

singlehood to married life.
- The change in one status is incorporated.
Wedding receptions and parties recognizes the groom

and bride as being husband and wife.
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ANTHONY WALLACE & RAYMOND
FOGELSON
- There is a discrepancy between the
identity a person posess and the identity
attributed to that person.
- Exhibits how individual selves throughout the world
continously reconstitute themselves into new selves in
response to the internal and external stimuli.
- The cohesiveness and continuity of the self are only
illusions.
- Reason why postmodern man lost his right and stop
striving to become an autonomous and active part of
self determination.
- In order to attain self identification, individuals
have to overcome many obstacles such as
traditionally established habitso externally
imposed self images.
CLIFFORD GEERTZ
- Human should give meanings to their
experiences so that order in the world
can established.
- Concept of culture has a great impact
on the concept of man.
1. Culture should not perceived only in complexes
of concrete behavior patterns such as usages, beliefs
and traditions but also a set of plans, recipes, rules
and istructions in guiding behaviors.
2. Man is defined by his genetic pentials shaped
into accomplishments which made possible by the
culture. Human nature is interdependent to culture.
- Human being is a cultural animals as they
create the meanings of objects, persons,
behavior, emotion and events and behave
according with the meaning they assume to be
true. Cultural differences exist when group of
people assign different meaning to different
events and things.

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UNDERSTANDING THE SELF 113 2019-2020

- They also studies how make us humans by studying

- It also studies how people evolve, how they onteract

- Children named after their deceased

INDIVIDUALIST AND COLLECTIVIST

ARNOLD VAN GENNEP

During wedding, the bride walking the aisle to be given

Wedding ceremony is a process of transition from

Wedding receptions and parties recognizes the groom

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