PSYO 3280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Moral Agency, Observer-Expectancy Effect, Rolf Harris
4 Dec 2012
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On becoming a person continued: socio-historical and cultural processes. Rights and privileges regarding who is a person (e. g. , slave) We grow up in a society that has ideas about what is a person or makes up a person. If you are defined by the society (for example, by law) in a way that is dependent of you that constrains your behaviour would deem you to not be a person. Individuals personal identity needs cultural conditions to realize free agency in society. You may be developing a personal identity in which you think you are a fully free independent functioning person which is fine as long as you live in a place and time where society deems that okay. If you do not it may lead to conflict. Society, in a way, determines who you are. Duality: you and society are a subjective thing.
