PSY 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Amber Case, Collective Identity, 18 Months

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2110
• Professor: Mariusz Michal Zadrag

Document Summary

The concept of the self and the self-concept. Concept of the self in history and culture. The (cid:374)ou(cid:374) (cid:862)self(cid:863) appeared i(cid:374) the o(cid:454)ford e(cid:374)glish di(cid:272)tio(cid:374)ar(cid:455) i(cid:374) (cid:1005)595 (cid:894)at the e(cid:374)d of the. Privacy and the self were experienced very differently in the middle ages. Privacy meant separation from the public sphere, but not from the extended family or immediate community. The typical home would have one large, multipurpose room. With 7 or 8 children, and sometimes livestock, the houses were simply overcrowded and offered no privacy. Under those conditions, individual privacy, as we think of it, did not exist. There was no concept of an independent self. Initially, chairs were reserved primarily for the nobility. Individual chairs replaced benches as seating for everyone well after the medieval period. Every culture has a distinct concept of the self. In other words, the self does not have an existence apart from the society and history that constructed and now describes it.