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    This document discusses perspectives on the self from social constructivism. It examines how the self is shaped by social and cultural influences like language, family, gender roles, and interactions with others from a young age. The self develops through internalizing social dialogues and is influenced by expectations and norms within one's social institutions and culture. Rather than being a static entity, the social constructivist view is that the self is dynamic and shaped by its relationship with external reality and society.

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    ANALYSIS

    After having examined your “SELF” in its different stages,


    • What are the similarities in all stages?
    • What are the differences in my “SELF” across the three stages of
    my life?
    • What are the possible reasons for the differences
    ABSTRACTION

    What is the “SELF”?


    According to Stevens , 1996
    The Self, in contemporar y literature and even common sense, is
    commonly defined by the following characteristics:” separate,self-
    contained,independent , consistent,unitary, and private.”
    • Separate- self is distinct from the others, unique and has its own
    identity
    • Self-contained and independent-because in itself it can exist. Its
    distinctness allows it to be self-contained with its own thoughts,
    characteristics, and volition
    • Consistent- has its own personality that is enduring and therefore
    can be expected to persist for quite some time
    -it consistency allows it to be studied, described and
    measured
    -a particular self traits, characteristics and potentialities are
    more or less the same
    • Unitary – it is the center of all experiences and thoughts that
    run through a certain person
    • Private- each person sorts our information, feelings and
    emotions, and thought processes with the self. The process is
    never accessible to anyone but the self
    Social Constructivist Perspective
    -Understanding the vibrant relationship between the self and
    external reality.
    -Social constructivists argue that the self should not be seen as a
    static entity that stays constant through and through. Rather , the
    self has to be seen as something that is in unceasing flux, in a
    constant struggle with external reality and is malleable in its dealing
    with society.The self is truly multifaceted.
    •DISCIPLINARIAN •STRICT
    •STERN •PERFECTIONIST
    •CARING •PATIENT

    FATHER TEACHER

    JOE

    LECTOR HUSBAND

    •RELIGIOUS •LOVING
    •CALM •INTIMATE
    •HELPFUL •TOUCHY
    THE SELF AND CULTURE
    According to French anthropologist Marcel Mauss:
    Every self has two faces: personne and moi
    Personne – refers to the social concepts of what it means to be who
    he is
    -has much to do with what it means to live in a particular institution,
    a particular family, a particular religion, a particular nationality, and
    how to behave given expectations and influences from others
    Moi- refers to a person’s sense of who he is, his body and his basic
    identity , his biological givenness.

    (jaywalking/courting/tapat ko ,linis ko)


    Language is another interesting aspect of social
    constructivism.
    Mahal Kita - I love You
    Object specified In general

    Mahal- means love and expensive in Filipino


    Expensive-valuable
    Love-valued
    Love- came from the sanskrit “lubh”- desire
    Desire-valuable

    Mahal ko Siya-gender-neutral
    THE SELF AND THE DEVELOPMENT
    OF THE SOCIAL WORLD

    MEAD AND VYGOSTSKY


    -The way that human persons develop is with the use of language
    acquisition and interaction with others. The way we process
    information is normally a form of an internal dialogue in our head.
    Those who deliberate about moral dilemmas undergo this internal
    dialog.
    “Should I do this or that?”
    “But if I do this, it will be like this.”
    “Don’t I want the other option?”
    - And so cognitive and emotional development of a child is always a
    mimicry of how it is done in the social world, in the external reality
    where he is in.
    - A child internalizes values, norms and practices and social
    benefits and more through exposure to the internal dialogs and
    social dialogs that will eventually become part of his individual
    world.

    - Role playing of children


    - Children becoming what they watch
    SELF IN FAMILIES

    - Every child is born with certain givenness, disposition coming


    from his parents’ genes and general conditions of life, the
    impact of the family is still deemed as a given in understanding
    the self.
    - The kind of family we are born in, the resources available to us
    (human, spiritual,economic ) and the kind of development that we
    will have will certainly affect us.
    - Every child internalizes and mimics the language and manners
    of the rearing family.
    GENDER AND THE SELF

    - Gender is an important aspect of the self.


    - Gender is one of those loci of the self that is subject to
    alteration, change and development.
    - People struggle to express, validate, and assert their gender
    expression
    - From the point-of-view of the social sciences and the self, it is
    important to give one the leeway to find and live his identity
    - Our gender partly determines how we see ourselves in the world.
    - Oftentimes, society forces a particular identity unto us
    depending on our sex and / or gender
    - Gender has to be personally discovered and asserted and not be
    dictated by culture and the society.

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