2.

2 Self and Behavioral Environment

These are the concepts that will help situate the self in different behavioral conditions.

THE FOUR ENVIRONMENTAL ORIENTATIONS:

a. Object orientation positions the self in relation to the surroundings objects. The self should be
able to act responsively to the cultural objects around.
b. Spatial orientation provides the self with personal space in relation to other people or things.
c. Temporal orientation endows the self with the sense of time. “Time is truly relevant to cultural
communist.”
d. Normative orientation provides the self with the grasp of accepted norms in the community.

3. The Self Embedded in Culture

When the self is able to distinguish what is acceptable behavior and what is not, it only follows
that the self is already able to recognize the differences of one’s self and the other. This ability to
manage the differences between selves is what makes the self-embedded in culture.

This latter includes:

a. All the feelings

b. Thoughts
c. Experiences
d. Biological
e. Psychological

However, the actual self is also being shaped by all these same elements and more. Therefore,
what remains in this distinction is the solid identity of the self in relation to everything else.

 The claim of self as embedded in culture can only be embraced when the self recognizes its
relation to everything else. The complexity of cultural identities of peoples, things, and events
shall be recognized and respected by the self. This individual self must remain reflexive of the
similarities and unique differences of everything around it.
 Anthropology recognizes the movement of this understanding towards plurarity and multiplicity
of:
a. Thoughts
b. Beliefs
c. Convictions
d. Practices
 The anthropological movements at this time are already geared toward recognizing the power
of culture in influencing little gaps and interstices, meaning intervening spaces between people.
It is only when the self recognizes the power of culture constituted by every system that we van
have an effective shaping of social reality.