PSYC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Comparison Theory, Pansexuality, Birth Order
25 Jan 2017
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The social self not independent of the environment; constructed, maintained, and negotiated in the social environment; a malleable self. Traits characteristic ways that you think, feel, and act that make you different from others. Family and socialization agents: parents, siblings, grandparents, teachers teach us attitudes and behaviors; encourage certain behaviors, opportunities, birth order. Younger siblings more agreeable: diversification siblings (especially younger ones) may take on different roles in the family to minimize conflict, reflected self-appraisals our beliefs about what others think of our social selves. Trait the average version of you that is relatively stable across time and situations. State how are you in different situations; changes based on context. Culture: in the west, independence is emphasized; in the east, interdependence is emphasized, power powerful people have more independent self concepts than low-power people. Gender: men have more independent views of self, women have more interdependent views of self, differences may come from socialization.
