SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture 8: What is the Self? Week 5

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Paul Glavin

Document Summary

What is the self concept: our sense of who we are as individuals. The source and object of reflexive behaviour: (cid:1684)the actions of one individual and the individual toward whom the actions are intended are the same(cid:1685) Both the i and the me make up the self (cid:1684)me(cid:1685) is the socialized self - learned behaviours, attitudes and expectations. (cid:1684)me(cid:1685) is the passive self (cid:1684)i(cid:1685) is the impulse and the active self. Responds to the (cid:1684)me(cid:1685), response to the socialized self. Steps in the development of self: importance of language, one of the earliest steps. An important step in acquiring a sense of self is learning one(cid:1685)s name as a child: role-taking (cid:1684)the process of imaginatively occupying the position of another person and viewing the self and the situation from the person(cid:1685)s perspective(cid:1685) Another important step in the development of self. Self as social object - developed through our interactions, is not purely cognitive.