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    1. The document asks the student to interview family and friends about how they see the student's future and qualities. 2. The student reflects that while others can observe them, no one truly knows their internal thoughts and motivations except themselves. 3. After learning about social identity and other theories, the student realizes their expectations of the interviews aligned with these theories, like viewing a magic friend's perspective on their skills as shaping their own view under a looking glass self theory.

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    “Who Am I?

    ” assignment
    1. Write short answers to the following question about yourself:
     Where do you see yourself ten years from now? (Occupation, civil status,
    where you will live etc.)
    I see myself having a university degree, hopefully something along the line of social sciences.
    I no longer live with my parents and live alone or with someone in an apartment. Hopefully I
    have made a name for myself in the magic community and can make a living out of my
    creations and performances. I hope to have grown as a person, resulting in me being happy,
    comfortable and someone who still follows his moral principles regardless of difficulties.

    2. Choose one person from the different social groups you are a member of:
    1. Your closest family (parent or sibling)
    2. Your closest friends
    3. Your extended family (eg a grandparent or cousin)
    4. One of your classmates in school
    5. A club/team/church you are a member of

    3. Ask them the following three questions and record their answers briefly here:
    1. How they see you ten years from now? (Occupation, civil status, where you will
    live etc)
    2. One quality of your they wish they had.
    3. One quality of yours they would like to see change.

    4. Write short reflections on the following questions, based on the answers you got
    from the people you interviewed:
    1. Do other people have more knowledge of you than you do about yourself?

    No – a lot of people have made their interpretations of my behaviours, but


    none understand the thought process behind my decisions or the reasons to
    why act in the way that I do. I’ve been more than astonished to notice the
    factors people have noticed, such as the way I view magic, but I still believe
    that other people cannot know more about myself than me. Others can now
    that certain things make me happy or amuse me based on the way I react
    towards them, but they will never truly know the way in which I view them
    internally.

    Other people may also applaud my actions, but they cannot know why I
    performed them in the first place. My parents may congratulate me for being
    hard working, but my desire to work hard is based on personal morals and
    values which they may not be aware of. The same goes for actions, some may
    applaud for having acted kindly in a specific circumstance, but they are
    simultaneously unaware to why I performed said action.
    All of this goes to show that although actions are viewed and interpreted by all,
    morals and principles tend to be more personal resulting in there being a clear
    difference between self – knowledge and what others interpret of oneself.

    2. Is self-knowledge more than other people´s knowledge of you?


    Yes – People’s knowledge about you is based on observations and interpretations, which can
    be accurate or not. The true knowledge within you is something only you can access, and a
    big factor affecting your perspective of the world. From that perspective self – knowledge is
    not something that can be equated with other’s knowledge about oneself, as they are separate
    forms of knowledge.

    5. Read the information on this website about the different social-self theories
    1. Looking-glass self
    2. Labeling and labeling bias
    3. Social comparison theory
    4. Social identity theory
    5. Self-evaluation maintenance theory
    6. Self presentation

    6. Write a short reflection (ca 200 words) on the following: 


    Does the information you now have about different social – self theories affect your
    reflections that you wrote in the previous sections?

    Absolutely - when receiving the answers from my cousin (extended family) it felt
    more personal, as he’s known me since I was born, and I’ve always looked up to him.
    This can be correlated to the social identity theory, as we are both from the same
    social group (our family). I did not interact in the same manner with him as I did with
    my friends, especially not with my magic friend from Lund (who I only see a couple
    of times per year) conforming to the social identity theory, as I did not present myself
    to him in the same manner I would have if he were family.

    While speaking to friends and family I was more concerned with personal traits, while
    with my magic friend I was additionally curious about how he perceived my magic
    abilities, and what he thought my future in the art would look like. This shows an
    inclination towards the looking glass self, as I believed that the way someone else
    viewed my abilities shaped them.

    This experience has allowed me to become more individualistic and self-aware,


    especially after researching the social self-theories showcased above. By that I have
    understood how my expectations of the responses shows signs of said social self-
    theories, and how I can adopt a more individualistic attitude to others remarks.

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