CHAPTER 2: SELF CONCEPT
EXERCISE 2: DISCUSSION
1. What does identity mean to you?
2. Is identity important to you?
3. How does identity impact people, their behaviour, and their attitudes?
SELF-CONCEPT AND IDENTITY
• Self-concept: To be aware of oneself is to have a concept of oneself
• The following self - concept definition is provided by Baumeister, "The individual's belief about himself or herself, including the person's attributes and who and what the self is"
(McLeod, S. A. (2008). Self-concept. Simply psychology: https://www.simplypsychology.org/self-concept.html)
• One's self-concept, also called self-construction, self-identity, self-perspective or self- structure, is a collection of beliefs about oneself that includes elements such as academic performance, gender roles, sexuality, and racial identity • Self-perception: The idea that you have about the kind of person you are. People’s self - perceptions are often very different from the way other people perceive them. Can be positive or negative
• Self- perception is a person’s own appraisal based on his or her own or their significant others’ expectations.
• Identity is the collective aspect of the set of characteristics by which a thing is definitively recognizable or known. The distinct personality of an individual is regarded as a persisting entity; individuality.
• For us to define ourselves, we must first define ourselves within the context of the society in which we interact.
• Socialization can be defined as : The complex set of processes by which infants become distinct and unique individuals as well as members of a society and historical era. Socialization refers to additional factors such as the acquisition and acceptance of the ideas, beliefs, behaviours, roles, motives and thought patterns of a particular culture.
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