Material Self

• Contraception - It refers to methods that are used to prevent pregnancy
• Materialism

  • Entails the importance of physical objects.
  • It is also a belief that everything is made of matter and energy, with less emphasis in non-physical objects like souls, spirits, or supernatural gods. Unlike spiritual entities, material things do not last eternally.
• William James

  • selfhood can bebroken in different fragments
  • Physical body – central constituent unit;includes the relatives and material possessions
• COMPONENTS OF THE MATERIAL SELF

  • BODY

  • THE CLOTHES

  People who an individual has relationships with such as one’s:

  • Immediate Family

  • Extended Family

  • Close Friends

  Apart from clothes, the material component of the self can include one’s:

  • HOUSE

  • CAR

  • PET
• Diderot Effect

  Suggests that one innocent purchase can unexpectedly spiral into an endless cycle of complementary consumption: the kind which preys on one’s yearning for a cohesive identity.

  
  

  We end up buying things that our previous selves never needed to feel happy or fulfilled.
• MATERIALISM is defined as a want towards acquiring and spending on earthly needs and material desires
• COMPULSIVE BUYING DISORDER

  • which is characterized by an obsession with shopping and buying behaviors that can cause adverse consequences.
• CONSUMERISM an economic and social concept which refers to the acquisition and purchases of product and services