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The Self in Modern Society and Culture

The document discusses how modernization has affected individuals' sense of self. In pre-modern societies, survival was the focus and social rules dictated behavior, marriage, work and where one lived. Modern societies allow more individual choice and self-development. Anthropology studies how culture shapes how individuals see themselves and relate to others and the environment. Cultural traditions regulate and transform the human psyche, leading to diversity in how different cultures experience the mind, self and emotions. The self is assembled through social interactions and how others react, so people take on different selves depending on the social situation. William James described the self as having material, social and spiritual components, with the material self most affecting how people see themselves. [END SU

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The Self in Modern Society and Culture

The document discusses how modernization has affected individuals' sense of self. In pre-modern societies, survival was the focus and social rules dictated behavior, marriage, work and where one lived. Modern societies allow more individual choice and self-development. Anthropology studies how culture shapes how individuals see themselves and relate to others and the environment. Cultural traditions regulate and transform the human psyche, leading to diversity in how different cultures experience the mind, self and emotions. The self is assembled through social interactions and how others react, so people take on different selves depending on the social situation. William James described the self as having material, social and spiritual components, with the material self most affecting how people see themselves. [END SU

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Research by: Judivina R.

Llanera
BSBA 1A (Irregular)
Sociology > The Study of the Development, structure,
and functioning of human society. The study of social
problems.
THE SELF AS A PRODUCT OF MODERN SOCIETY AMONG OTHER CONTRUCTIONS –
Modernization has significantly changed society, and this has affected how an
individual build and develops his/her self. Identify. Pre-modern society was
centered on survival. People behaved according to social rules and traditions while
the family and the immediate environmental provided supervision on how to get
through life. Choosing where to live what line of work to do, and even who to
marry was very limited.
Anthropology – Is the systematic study of humanity, with the goal of understanding our evolutionary origins,
our distinctiveness as a species, and the great diversity in our forms of social existence across the world and
through time. The focus of Anthropology is on understanding both our shared humanity and diversity, and
engaging with diverse ways of being in the world.

THE SELF AND PERSON IN CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY – The


study of people past and present. Focuses on understanding human
condition in its cultural aspect. Concerned with understanding how
human evolved and how they differ from one another.
The Self Embedded in Culture – How individuals see themselves, how they relate to other
people, and how they relate to the environment are deeply defined by culture. If one finds
the view that the self is a product of society, then it is plausible that the ways of how the self
is developed are bound to cultural differences as well.

Cultural anthropologists have argued that self is culturally shaped and infinitely
variable. “Cultural traditions and social practices regulate, express and transform
the human psyche, resulting to less psychic unity of humankind than in ethnic
divergences in mind, self and emotion (Schweder, 1991, p. 72). The basic idea is
that principles of how the mind works cannot be conceived of as universal, but that
it is as varied as the culture and traditions that people practice all over the world.
DEMONSTRATE CRITICAL REFLECTIVE THOUGHT IN ANALYZING THE DEVELOPMENT OF
ONE’S SELF AND IDENTITY BY DEVELOPING A THEORY OF THE SELF – Man’s social self is
assembled based on our interactions with the society and the reactions of others that are
analyzed in order to contribute to contribute to our idea of social self. Thus, actions
manifested by people will depend on the social situation they are interacting with.

With the diverse social situations that an individual may encounter and participate
with, it is then assumed that one may manifest number of selves depending on a
situation.
THE SELF AS COGNITIVE CONSTRUCTION (William James) – The material self as according
to James, is the component of “Me” that we tend to be most affected with, as we invest in
our-selves within these things such as clothes, family, and home. In James view, “Me”
reflects “all things” which have the power to produce excitement of a certain particular
source, an experimental quality of me-ness, mine-ness, and some similar form, and is
consist with three components, material, social, spiritual.
AND THE ME SELF vs. I SELF – Distinguished two understanding of self represented
by the self as “Me” and the self as “I”. The former correspondents to the self as an
object of experience (self as object) or self as known, the latter refers to the self as
a subject of experience (self as subject) or the self as knower that is considered to
be pure ego and the consciousness itself.
END OF PRESENTATION

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