UNDERSTANDING THE SELF
IDENTITY - REFERS TO THE QUALITIES, BELIEFS, ETC. THAT MAKE A PARTICULAR
PERSON OR GROUP DIFF FROM OTHERS; OR IT OCULD BE DEFINED AS THE
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTER OR PERSONALITY OF AN INDIVIDUAL
SELF - THE PERSON THAT SOMEONE NORMALLY OR TRULY IS, OR THE ENTIRE
PERSON OF AN INDIVIDUAL
PERSONALITY - INDIVIDUAL PATTERNS OF THINKING, FEELING, AND BEHAVING,
IT IS SAID THAT NO TWO PEOPLE WOULD HAVE AN IDENTICAL PERSONALITY,
AND THAT EVERY INDIVIDUAL IS UNIQUE. ONE MAY SHARE COMMONALITIES
WITH OTHER PEOPLE (MANNERS, APPEARANCE, BEARING, ETC) BUT WILL STILL
POSSESS AN IDENTITY THAT SETS HIM OR HER APART
IDENTITY DOES NOT CONNOTE EXCLUSIVELY OR OUTRIGHT DIFFERENCE
AGAINST OTHERS; INSTEAD, IT REFERS TO THE SETS OF CHARACTERISTICS
THAT MAKE ONE A DISTINCT INDIVIDUAL.
FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE ONE’S IDENTITY
1. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR
2. HEREDITARY FACTOR
3. PERSON-VOLITION FACTOR - IT REFERS TO THE INCLINATION OF A PERSON
FROM OTHERS. SUCH FACTOR EMANATES FROM WITHIN THE MENTALITY
OF AN INDIVIDUAL, BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE AGGREGATED SOCIAL-LIFE
EXPERIENCES. SOCIAL SCIENTISTS/SOCIOLOGISTS MAY REFER TO A
PERSON EXHIBITING PERSON-VOLITION FACTOR AS DEVIANT OR NON-
CONFORMIST.
SELF-AWARENESS
• Having self-awareness means that you have a clear RECOGNITION OF YOUR
OVERALL PERSONALITY.
• This includes your strengths and weaknesses, thoughts and beliefs, emotions,
and sources of motivation.
• Having self-awareness helps you understand other people and how they view
you and your actions.
• Being self-aware will make you know how to adjust to certain people.
• Many people assume that self-awareness comes easily and naturally, but this
sense of heightened awareness can actually be hard to come by.
• Achieving self-awareness gives you the opportunity to make positive changes in
your behavior and increase your self-confidence.
, PHILOSOPHY OF THE SELF
• The SELF has been defined as “a unified being, essentially connected to
consciousness, awareness, and agency (or, at least, with the faculty of rational
choice)”
• Different philosophers introduced specific characteristics and meanings of the
self, which, over time, transformed from abstractions to explanations that hold
scientific proofs.
Socrates – Idealism
Plato – Idealism
Aristotle – Empiricist
St. Augustine – Platonism
Rene Descartes – Rationalist,
John Locke – Empiricist
David Hume – Empiricist
Immanuel Kant – Rationalist/Empiricist
Patricia Churchland – Empiricist
Maurice Merlean-Ponty – Existentialist/Empiricist
BASIC PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS
Belonging
Freedom
Recognition
Self-esteem
Fun
Safety
IDENTITY - REFERS TO THE QUALITIES, BELIEFS, ETC. THAT MAKE A PARTICULAR
PERSON OR GROUP DIFF FROM OTHERS; OR IT OCULD BE DEFINED AS THE
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTER OR PERSONALITY OF AN INDIVIDUAL
SELF - THE PERSON THAT SOMEONE NORMALLY OR TRULY IS, OR THE ENTIRE
PERSON OF AN INDIVIDUAL
PERSONALITY - INDIVIDUAL PATTERNS OF THINKING, FEELING, AND BEHAVING,
IT IS SAID THAT NO TWO PEOPLE WOULD HAVE AN IDENTICAL PERSONALITY,
AND THAT EVERY INDIVIDUAL IS UNIQUE. ONE MAY SHARE COMMONALITIES
WITH OTHER PEOPLE (MANNERS, APPEARANCE, BEARING, ETC) BUT WILL STILL
POSSESS AN IDENTITY THAT SETS HIM OR HER APART
IDENTITY DOES NOT CONNOTE EXCLUSIVELY OR OUTRIGHT DIFFERENCE
AGAINST OTHERS; INSTEAD, IT REFERS TO THE SETS OF CHARACTERISTICS
THAT MAKE ONE A DISTINCT INDIVIDUAL.
FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE ONE’S IDENTITY
1. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR
2. HEREDITARY FACTOR
3. PERSON-VOLITION FACTOR - IT REFERS TO THE INCLINATION OF A PERSON
FROM OTHERS. SUCH FACTOR EMANATES FROM WITHIN THE MENTALITY
OF AN INDIVIDUAL, BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE AGGREGATED SOCIAL-LIFE
EXPERIENCES. SOCIAL SCIENTISTS/SOCIOLOGISTS MAY REFER TO A
PERSON EXHIBITING PERSON-VOLITION FACTOR AS DEVIANT OR NON-
CONFORMIST.
SELF-AWARENESS
• Having self-awareness means that you have a clear RECOGNITION OF YOUR
OVERALL PERSONALITY.
• This includes your strengths and weaknesses, thoughts and beliefs, emotions,
and sources of motivation.
• Having self-awareness helps you understand other people and how they view
you and your actions.
• Being self-aware will make you know how to adjust to certain people.
• Many people assume that self-awareness comes easily and naturally, but this
sense of heightened awareness can actually be hard to come by.
• Achieving self-awareness gives you the opportunity to make positive changes in
your behavior and increase your self-confidence.
, PHILOSOPHY OF THE SELF
• The SELF has been defined as “a unified being, essentially connected to
consciousness, awareness, and agency (or, at least, with the faculty of rational
choice)”
• Different philosophers introduced specific characteristics and meanings of the
self, which, over time, transformed from abstractions to explanations that hold
scientific proofs.
Socrates – Idealism
Plato – Idealism
Aristotle – Empiricist
St. Augustine – Platonism
Rene Descartes – Rationalist,
John Locke – Empiricist
David Hume – Empiricist
Immanuel Kant – Rationalist/Empiricist
Patricia Churchland – Empiricist
Maurice Merlean-Ponty – Existentialist/Empiricist
BASIC PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS
Belonging
Freedom
Recognition
Self-esteem
Fun
Safety
