Chapter 2- The self, culture and society

1. Chapter 2
Preparred by: Hermie Jade Gordoncillo

2. What is SELF?
SEPARATE
SELF-CONTAINED
INDEPENDENT
CONSISTENT
UNITARY PRIVATE

3. The Self and Culture
According to Mauss the self has 2 faces:
Personne and Moi.
moi-the person’s sense of who he is,
his body and his basic identiy, his biological
givenness.
personne-is the person’s basic identity.

4. Mead and Vygotsky
The way that human persons
develop is with the use of
language acquisition and
interaction
with others.

5. Self in Families
• The impact of one’s family
is still deemed as a given
in understanding the self.
the kind of family that we
are born in, the resources
available to us.
• Family initiates aperson to
become, that serves as
the basis of this a person’s
progress.

6. Gender and the Self
• It is to give one the leeway
to find, express, and live
his identify.
• Gender partly determines
how we see ourseves in
the world.

7. Activity 2
• What are the influences of family in your development as
an individual.?
• What aspects of your self do you think may be changed or
you would like to change?
• How would you describe your self?