Socio, Anthro, Psycho

• Self


  • Separate
  • Self-contained and Independent
  • Consistent
  • Unitary
  • Private
• Ourselves are truly products of our interaction with external reality
• Social Constructionism

  Meaning and knowledge are socially created
• Social Constructivism


  • The self should not be seen as a static entity that stays constant
  • The self has to be seen as something that is in unceasing flux
• Moi


  A person's sense of who he is, his body, and his basic identity, his biological givenness
• Personne


  Composed of the social concepts of what it means to be who he is
• Every self has two faces according to Marcel Mauss
• I


  What is out there, acting, being spontaneous, doing things in the world (present & future)
• Me


  An object, the aggregate combined image of yourself that has been given to you from interacting with society (past)
• Social Learning Theory


  • Theory that attempts to explain socialization and its effect on the development of the self
  • An individual's identity is not the product of the unconscious, but instead is the result of modeling oneself in response to the expectations of others
• The Bobo Doll Experiment demonstrates Social Learning Theory
• Self-Efficacy


  People's belief about their capabilities to produce designated levels of performance that exercise influence over events that affect their lives
• Four Main Sources of Self-Efficacy

  • Mastery Experiences
  • Social Modeling
  • Social Persuasion
  • Psychological Responses
• I


  The thinking, acting & feeling self
• Me


  • Reflects the self as a subject of experience (self as subject)
  • Physical characteristics and psychological capabilities (self as object)
• Psychosexual Stages of Development

  • Formulation of Oedipus complex and Electra complex
  • Id, Ego, Super Ego and existence of libido
• Sigmund Freud was one of the strongest influences on twentieth-century thought
• William James was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States