Lesson 2 Sociology

• MOI According to Mauss, every self has two faces: personne and moi
• The Self and Culture


  Composed of social concepts of what it means to be who he is, what it means to live in a particular institution, family, religion, nationality, and how he behaves given the expectations and influences from others
• PERSONNE refers to a person’s sense of who he is, his body, and his basic identity
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• THE SELF IN THE LENS OF SOCIETY AND CULTURE
• THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONIST PERSPECTIVE
• Self


  1. Separate: distinct from other selves, always unique and has its own identity

  2. Self-contained: distinctive with its own thoughts, characteristics, and volition, does not require any other self to exist

  3. Independent: consistent and unitary

  4. Private: isolated from the external world (feelings, emotions, private thoughts)
• Mead was considered as the father of American pragmatism
• “I” – is the reaction of the individual to the attitude of others
• He rejected the notion of the biological determination of the self
• GEORGE HERBART MEAD AND THE SOCIAL SELF
• “ME” – are characteristics, behavior, and or actions done by a person that follows the “generalized others”
• Mead’s I and ME component

  1. I

  2. GENERALIZED OTHERS

  3. ME
• Mead’s THREE STAGES of SELF DEVELOPMENT

  1. Preparatory Stage (Birth – 2 years old)

  2. Play Stage (2-6 years Old)

  3. Game Stage (6-9 years Old)
• Preparatory Stage (Birth – 2 years old)


  The infant simply imitates the actions and behaviors of other people that the infant interacts with
• Play Stage (2-6 years Old)

  Children begin to interact with others with certain rules, often set by the children themselves, practice real-life situations through pretend play, onset of consciousness
• The idea of “self” may be based on the general attitudes and behaviors of other people or the individuality of the person that manifests as a response to those attitudes and behaviors of others
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• Game Stage (6-9 years Old)


  Children reorganize the rules of the game, identify their roles, learn implications of actions, understand society's viewpoint on attitudes and actions
• The establishment of the sense of self, socialization is a lifetime endeavor, and the people one interacts with will change throughout a person’s life in consideration of the social environment one belongs to like school, home, work. Such interactions will concretize the identity and sense of self
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