Anthropological Conceptualization of the Self
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- It is concerned with how cultural and biological processes interact to shape human experience.
- It is defined by Edward Tylor as the complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society."
- According to this view, there is no intrinsic self that can possess enduring quialities.
- It is the features of a person's identity that he or she chooses to emphasize in constructing his or her social self.
- It is a universal practice with numerous cross-cultural variations, and it establishes a child's birthright and social identity.
- These are interactions in which there is a discrepancy between the identity a person claims to possess and the identity attributed to that person by others.
- He believes that the concept of self is a necessary supplement to the concept of culture and should be regarded as human universal.
- True or False: Culture and self are complementary concepts that have to be understood in relation to one another.
- He believes that a person is a cultural individual existing in freedom.
- According to this view, the self is an autonomous and distinct individual.
- According to this anthropologist, the Japanese possesses a sociocentric view of the self.
- True or False: The Japanese view of the self can be best described as egocentric.
- True or False: The American's view of the self can be best described as egocentric as they believed that they should be assertive and independent.
- True or False: Family membership can be the most significant feature to determine one's social identity.
- True or False: Religious affiliation is not an important marker of group identity.
- Arnold van Gennep believes that changes in one's status and identity are marked by (_).
- It is the phase where people detach from their former identity to another.
- It is the phase where a person transitions from one identity to another.
- It is the phase where the change in one's status is officially incorporated.
- They coined the term "identity toolbox."
- True or False: The most important philosophical task of the postmodern man is to "work on yourself."
- He considers human beings as cultural animals.
- True or False: The concept of the self can be viewed in three ways: egocentric, anthropocentric, and sociocentric.
- True or False: Personal names in all societies represent the self.
- True or False: There is still an identity struggle even when there is union in a person's assumed identity and imposed identity .
- True or False: The concept of the "illusion of wholeness" implies that the cohesive and continuity of self is illusory.
- The concept of "Illusion of Wholeness" was proposed by (_).
- True or False: Cultural differences in culture exist because various groups assign different meanings to different things.