Ge 1 Chapter 1 Lesson 2,3 & 4

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means that the self is distinct from other selves. The self is always unique and has its own identity.

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Separate

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because in itself it can exist. Its distinctness allows it to be self-contained with its own thoughts, characteristics, and volition.

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Self-contained and independent

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means that a particular self’s traits, characteristics, tendencies, and potentialities are more or less the same.

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Consistency

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in that it is the center of all experiences and thoughts that run through a certain person

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Unitary

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means that each person sorts out information, feelings and emotions, and thought processes within the self. This whole process is never accessible to anyone but the self.

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Private

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According to Marcel Mauss, every self has two faces:

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Moi and Personne

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refers to a person’s sense of who he is, his body, and his basic identity, his biological givenness.

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Moi

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is composed of the social concepts of what it means to be who he is.

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Personne

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is another interesting aspect of this social constructivism

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Language

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it is a salient part of culture and ultimately, has a tremendous effect in our crafting of the self.

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Language

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If the _____ is born into a particular society or culture, the self will have to adjust according to its exposure.

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Self

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The unending terrain of metamorphosis of the self is mediated by

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Language

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the way that human persons develop is with the use of language acquisition and interaction with others.

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Mead and Vygotsky

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treat the human mind as something that is made, constituted through language as experienced in the external world and as encountered in dialogs with others.

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Vygotsky and Mead

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are born virtually helpless and the dependency period of a human baby to its parents for nurturing is relatively longer than most other animals.

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Human beings

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learn the ways of living and therefore their selfhood by being in a family.

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Human persons

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Human persons learn the ways of living and therefore their selfhood by being in a ________.

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family

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What initiates a person to become that serves as the basis for this person’s progress?

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Family

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What are the kind of development that we will have that will certainly affect us?

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The kind of family that we are born in, the resources available to us (human, spiritual, economic)

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In trying to achieve the goal of becoming a fully realized human, a child enters what?

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a system of relationships, most important of which is the family

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is one of those loci of the self that is subject to alteration, change, and development

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Gender

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has to be personally discovered and asserted and not dictated by culture and the society.

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Gender

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There are various definitions of the “self” and other similar or interchangeable concepts in psychology. Other concepts similar to self are

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identity and self-concept

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is composed of personal characteristics, social roles, and responsibilities, as well as affiliations that define who one is.

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Identity

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is what basically comes to your mind when you are asked about who you are.

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Self-Concept

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are not fixed in one time frame.

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Self, identity, and self-concept

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Carl Rogers captured this idea in his concept of _________ or our organized system or collection of knowledge about who we are.

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Self-schema

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generally see the self and identity as mental constructs, created and recreated in memory.

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Theories

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saw the self, its mental processes, and one’s behavior as the results of the interaction between the Id, the Ego, and the Superego.

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Seigmund Freud

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Pleasure principle

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Id

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Reality principle

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Ego

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Morality principle

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Super Ego

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There are three reasons why self and identity are social products:

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1. We do not create ourselves out of nothing. Society helped in creating the foundations of who we are.

2. Whether we like to admit it or not, we actually need others to affirm and reinforce who we think we are.

3. What we think is important to us may also have been influenced by what is important in our social or historical context.

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are vital factors in creating our self-concept especially in the aspect of providing us with our social identity.

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Social interaction and group affiliation

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times when we are aware of our self-concepts

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Self-awareness

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They identified two types of self that we can be aware of

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Carver and Scheier

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Carver and Scheier identified two types of self that we can be aware of

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Private self

Public self

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or your internal standards and private thoughts and feelings

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Private self

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or your public image commonly geared toward having a good presentation of yourself to others

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Public self

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Self-awareness also presents us with at least three other self-

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Actual

Ideal

Ought

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is who you are at the moment

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Actual self

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is who you like to be

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Ideal self

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is who you think you should be

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Ought self

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may be positive or negative depending on the circumstances and our next course of action

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Self-awareness

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Our group identity and self-awareness also has a great impact on our ________, defined as our own positive or negative perception or evaluation of ourselves.

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Self-esteem

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One of the ways in which our social relationship affects our self-esteem is through

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Social comparison

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is the more common type of comparing ourselves with others, by comparing ourselves with those who are worse off than us.

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Downward social comparison

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which is comparing ourselves with those who are better off than us.

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Upward social comparison

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Social comparison also entails what is called _______

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self-evaluation maintenance theory

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which states that we can feel threatened when someone out-performs us, especially when that person is close to us.

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self-evaluation maintenance theory

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trait characterized by overly high self-esteem, self-admiration, and self-centeredness

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narcissistic

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can be seen as a code of ethical conduct, of how one should properly act according to his/her relationship with other people; thus it is also focused on having a harmonious social life.

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Confucianism

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Self-cultivation is seen as the ultimate purpose of life.

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Confucianism

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The cultivated self in Confucianism is what some scholars call a “subdued self” wherein personal needs are repressed (subdued) for the good of many, making Confucian society also hierarchal for the purpose of maintaining order and balance in society.

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Confucianism

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Living in the way of the Tao or the universe.

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Taoism

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Rejects having one definition of what the Tao is.

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Taoism

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Rejects the hierarchy and strictness brought by Confucianism and would prefer a simple lifestyle and its teachings thus aim to describe how to attain that life.

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Taoism

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The self is not just an extension of the family or the community; it is part of the universe.

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Taoism

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The ideal self is selflessness but this is not forgetting about the self; it is living a balanced life with society and nature, being open and accepting to change, forgetting about prejudices and egocentric ideas and thinking about equality as well as complementarity among humans as well as other beings.

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Taoism

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The self is seen as an illusion, born out of ignorance, of trying to hold and control things, or human-centered needs; thus, the self is also the source of all these sufferings.

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Budhism

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To forget about the self, forget the cravings of the self, break the attachments you have with the world, and to renounce the self which is the cause of all suffering and in doing so, attain the state of Nirvana.

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Budhism

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Sees the other person as part of yourself as well as the things you may create, a drama in which everyone is interconnected with their specific roles

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Eastern thoughts

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Asian culture is called a collectivistic culture as the group and social relations that is given more importance than individual needs and wants.

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Eastern thoughts

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Looks at the world in dualities wherein you are distinct from the other person, the creator is separate from the object he created, in which the self is distinguished and acknowledged

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Western thoughts

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The Western culture is what we would call an individualistic culture since their focus is on the person.

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Western thoughts