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Theories of Self and identity - Human beings involved: |
James: father of Psychology "Principles of Psychology" 1892 Cooley: self and society Mead: Father of Sociology "Mind, Self and Society" |
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James |
Introduced notion of "Self" - Grounded in Subjective experience = phenemonological Personality has 2 elements: I self = knower, continuing in time, feeling of identity Me self = known, the social self has 3 parts |
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3 parts of the Me-self |
Material self: bodies, family, possessions Social self: social relations Spiritual self: feelings of subjectivity |
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James' important contributions to self-theory |
- Notion of many selves -- ie self in class and out of class - Notion of Self esteem - ratio of success to failures -- Can increase by lowering aspirations of increasing success - Differentiating ideal selves and real selves |
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Cooley |
Emphasis on connection between self and society Self comes by interaction with others |
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Looking Glass Self |
1. The imagination of our appearance to the other person 2. The imagination of his judgment of that appearance 3. Self-feeling, such as pride or mortification Process of interchange as it's reflected to the person |
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Mead |
Social process is prior to individual experience (takes cooley father) Individual mind comes out of social process - individual is preeminently social |
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Self As Socially Emergent
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Mead Not born with a self, it develops in an individual as a result of relations with others |
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Self-Consciousness - Mead |
Result of a process in which the individual takes the attitudes of others toward herself - view self from the POV of others |
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Mead's Basic Social Processes |
Language, play, and the game Symbolic interaction that makes the objectification of the self possible |
