The self society and culture
mentality of women as care providers in the
What is self?
- Separate, self – contained,
independent, consistent, unitary and
private.
The self and culture
- Language has something to do with
culture
The self and the development of the social
world
- One is believed to be in active
participation in the whole process of
the shaping of selves
Mead and Vygotsky
- The way that human and persons
develop is with the use of language
acquisition and interaction with others
- The way that we process information
normally a form of an internal dialogue
in our head.
Self in families
- The kind of the family that we are born
in, the resources available to us, and
the kind of development that we will
have will certainly affect us as we go
through life.
Gender and the self
- Gender is one of those tool of the self
that is subject to alteration, change,
and development.
Nancy chodorow – a feminist, argues that
because mothers take the role of taking care of
children, there is tendency for girls to imitate
the same and reproduce the same kind of
family.
William James (1890)
- One of the earliest psychologists to
study the self and conceptualized self
having two aspects; “I” and “me”.
“I”
- Thinking, acting and feeling self
“me”
- Is the physical characteristics as well as
psychological capabilities that makes
who you are.
Carl Roger (1959)
“I”
- One who acts and decides
“me”
- Is what you think or feel about yourself
as an object
3 reasons why self and identity are social
products
a. We do not create ourselves out of
nothing
b. Whether we like to admit it or not, we
actually need others to affirm and
reinforce who we think are.
c. What we think is important to us may
also have been influenced by what is
important in our social or historical
context.
Social interaction and affliation Self cultivation

- Vital factors in creating our self-concept - Is seen as the ultimate purpose of life
especially in the aspect of providing us but the characteristics of chun-zu, a
with our social identity or our man of virture or noble character, is still
perception of who we are based our embedded in his social relationships.
membership to certain groups.
Taoism
Self – awareness
- Living in the way of tao or the universe.
- Time wherein we are aware of our self- - They adopt a life of free-flowing,
concept relative, univary, and as well as
paradoxical view of almost everything.
2 types of self that we can be aware of:
Buddhism
a. The private self or your internal
standards and private thoughts and - The self is seen as an illusion, born out
feelings of ignorance, of trying to hold and
b. The public self or your public image control things, or human centered
commonly geared toward having a needs; thus the self is the source of all
good presentation of yourself to others. these sufferings.

3 self schema Western culture – individualistic culture

(focused on personal shits)
actual
- Straightforward and forceful in their
ideal communication as well as decision
ought self making
- equality

Asian culture – collectivistic culture (social shits)

Narcissism
- Compromising, tend to go around the
- A trait characterized by overly high self- bush explaining things, hoping other
esteem, self-admiration and self person would feel what they really
centeredness. want to say.
- Respect for hierarchy

Confucianism

- A code of ethical conduct of how one

should properly act according to their
relationship with other people thus; it is
also focused on having harmonious
social life.