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    Here is a 193-word essay responding to the guide questions: Name: Sample Student Course & Year: BS Psychology, 2nd Year Rating: 8/10 The death of Gum-Ri had a profound effect on the entire neighborhood of Gongjin. As the matriarch who held the community together, her passing left a void that was felt emotionally by all. The close-knit nature of the neighborhood and the intimate bonds between residents formed a primary group where deep emotional needs like comfort and support were shared collectively. Hong Du-sik's view of himself was largely shaped through his interpretation of how others in Gongjin saw him. Based on Cooley's looking glass self, Du-

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    Sociological Perspective of

    the Self
    • The self is not created in isolation.
    • The social institution defines our self-concept and our self-esteem.
    • We rely on others to provide a “social reality”.
    Sociology
    • The study of society, social institutions and social relationships
    • An exciting and illuminating field of study that analyzes and explains
    important matters in our personal lives, our communities, and the world
    • A social science that studies human societies, their interactions, and the
    processes that preserve and change them
    • Examining the dynamics of constituent parts of societies such as
    institutions, communities, populations, and gender, racial, or age groups.
    • Also studies social status or stratification, social movements, and social
    change, as well as societal disorder in the form of crime, deviance,
    and revolution.
    The Self
    • A relatively stable set of perceptions of who we are in relation to our
    selves, others, and social systems
    • Socially constructed in the sense that it is shaped through interaction
    with other people
    • Self-contained and independent because it can exist by itself
    (contained in its own thoughts, characteristics, and volition)
    • Has personality that is enduring or persists over time
    Socialization
    • A means by which human infants begin to acquire the skills necessary
    to perform as a functioning member of their society
    • The most influential in learning process one can experience
    Developing the Self-Concept or Self-Image
    According to Cooley
    1. We imagine how we appear
    to another person.

    2. We imagine what judgments


    people make of us based on our
    appearance.

    3. We imagine how the person


    feels about us, based on the
    judgment made of us.
    Group
    • A wide variety of gatherings, from just two people, a club, a regular
    gathering of friends, or people who work together or share a hobby
    • Any collection of at least two people who interact with some
    frequency and who share a sense that their identity is somehow
    aligned with the group
    Aggregate or Crowd
    • People who happen to be in the same place at the same time but
    who do not interact or share a sense of identity
    Category
    • Another example of a nongroup is people who share similar
    characteristics but are not tied to one another in any way
    Cooley’s Looking Glass Self
    • “I am not what I think I am and I am not what you think I am; I am
    what I think that you think I am.”
    • A person’s self grows out of society’s interpersonal interactions and
    the perceptions of others
    • The view of ourselves comes from contemplation of personal qualities
    and impressions of how others perceive us
    • People shaping their identity based on the perception of others,
    which leads the people to reinforce other people’s perspectives on
    themselves
    • Interactionist Perspective of Sociology
    How can a nongroup become a
    group?
    Group, Aggregate/Crowd, or Category?
    • Incoming freshmen students taking the admission test
    • New and old employees attending a year end party
    • Inmates attending a symposium on anger management
    • People standing in line to buy the latest iPhone product
    • Nurses on duty given special instructions by their head
    • Students who are members of the Science club
    • All our moms are Baby Boomers
    • Pre-service teachers taking their licensure in one cramped testing
    center
    Primary Groups
    • The source of human nature
    • Characterized by close, intimate, face-to-face interaction whose
    primary function is socialization
    • Play the most critical role in our lives
    • Usually fairly small and made up of individuals who generally engage
    in long term emotional ways
    • Serve emotional needs: expressive functions rather than pragmatic
    ones
    • Made up of significant others, those individuals who have the most
    impact on our socialization
    Secondary Group
    • The larger and more disparate nucleated group whose members were
    rarely if ever all in direct contact
    • Larger and impersonal
    • Task-focused and time-limited
    • Serve an instrumental function rather than an expressive one
    Theory of Social Self
    • George Herbert Mead, the proponent; a pioneer of symbolic
    interaction theory
    • Self emerges from social interactions, such as observing and
    interacting with others, responding to others’ opinions about oneself,
    and internalizing external opinions and internal feelings about oneself
    • The self is not there from birth, but it is developed over time from
    social experiences and activities
    The Self
    ✓Is a product of social interaction
    ✓Is a social structure, arising in social experience
    ✓Exists in the activity of viewing oneself reflexively
    ✓“Role-taking” - taking the standpoint of others
    Development of Self
    A. Preparatory Stage/Imitation Stage
    • Develops self by allowing individuals to respond to each other through
    symbols, gestures, words, and sounds
    • Conveys others' attitudes, emotions and opinions toward a subject or
    the person.
    B. Play Stage
    • Develops self by allowing individuals to take on different roles,
    pretend, and express expectation of others
    • Develops one's self-consciousness through role-playing
    • During role-play, a person is able to internalize the perspective of
    others and develop an understanding of how others feel about
    themselves and others in a variety of social situations.
    C. Game Stage
    • Develops self by allowing individuals to understand and adhere to the
    rules of the activity
    • Self is developed by understanding that there are rules in which one
    must abide by in order to win the game or be successful at an activity
    D. Generalized Other
    • Develops, understands, and learns the idea of the common behavioral
    expectation of the general society
    • Able to imagine how you are viewed by one or many
    • The Self is being developed
    3 Ways to Develop the Self
    1. Language
    ✓Allows individuals to take on the “role of the other” and allows people to
    respond to his or her own gestures in terms of the symbolized attitudes of
    others.
    2. In play
    ✓Individuals take on the roles of other people and pretend to be those other
    people in order to express the expectations of significant others.
    3. In the game
    ✓The individual is required to internalize the roles of all others who are
    involved with him or her in the game and must comprehend the rules of the
    game.
    Forms of the Self
    1) “Me” Part
    ✓Social Self
    ✓The objective and active part of self
    ✓The organized set of attitudes of others which individuals assume
    ✓Represents the expectations and attitudes of others (the "generalized other")
    organized into a social self
    ✓Anticipated responses with respect to self
    ✓The society’s view
    2. “I” Part
    ✓The part of you that’s existing out in the world, acting, being spontaneous,
    etc.
    ✓The subject of the action – what you would commonly think of as yourself
    ✓Response to the ME self or the person’s individuality
    ✓The responses of the person to the organized attitude of others
    ✓Contains creativity ang spontaneity parts of the self
    ✓Individual identity stepping in or what our personal responses to what society
    thinks
    Cooley vs. Mead
    Mead Cooley
    • Communication with other • Interaction was the key factor for
    members of the society helps building one’s self-image
    people form self-images • Emphasis on ‘significant others’
    ✓Social experience, not biological being in the position of influence
    factor
    for us
    ✓Exchanging of symbols
    ✓Socialization – learning how to see
    themselves from another perspective
    ✓Self-awareness appears with the
    understanding of role of others
    To Do
    • Watch the last episode of Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha (Episode 16, 22:25)
    • Write a short essay using the guide questions.
    • Submission will be next meeting
    • Follow the formatting:
    a) Short sized bond paper
    b) Strictly use 200 words only
    c) Tahoma; 12; 1.0
    d) Have the following parts in your essay: Introduction, Body, and Conclusion
    e) Use this as your header:
    Name: Course & Year: Rating:
    f) Use this as footer:
    Note:
    Name: Course & Year: Rating:

    Note:
    Guide Questions:
    1. Focusing on the death of Gum-Ri, how did it affect
    the entire neighborhood considering that the lovely
    lady is the glue in the community? Would you say
    that their cohesiveness is a primary group? If yes,
    what are the emotional needs that were met and
    shared by the entire neighborhood? If no, what
    were the functional needs then?
    2. Describe the main character, Hong Du-sik, based on
    Cooley’s looking glass self. How did his community
    shape him in his journey of finding his true self?
    3. Taking into consideration the people in Gongjin as a
    collective self and using the stages of self
    development of Mead, discuss the pertinent
    aspects the people in the community did during
    and after the wake?
    4. When Gum-ri wrote Du-sik this: “People should live
    among other people”, how would you expound this
    to him in understanding himself?

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