GEORGE HERBERT MEAD:

Social Behaviorism – explains environment of self in influencing human

behavior

Self –awareness – is the experience of one’s own personality or

individuality ( it should not be confused with consciousness)

Consciousness - is being aware of one’s environment, body and lifestyle.

Self –image – is the personal view or mental picture that we have of

ourselves; it is an “internal dictionary” that describes the characteristics
of the self, including such things as intelligent, beautiful, ugly, talented,
selfish and kind.

STAGES OF SELF FORMATION:

Preparatory stage- the action of children based primarily on

imitation.

The Play stage – role-taking is the process of assuming the

perspective of another person to see how this person might
behave or respond in a given situation.

The Game stage – at this stage, generalized other, was used to

explain the behavior when a person considers other people in the
course of his action; through this the person realizes the cultural
norms beliefs and values incorporated to each self ‘ with this it
forms the basis of self evaluation.

THE “I” AND “ME”

I self – when the person initiates, the self functions as a subject.

The subjective element of the self is the I.

ME SELF – when the person takes the role of the other, the
self-function as an object.

The objective element of the self is me.

CHARLES HORTON COOLEY (1864-1929):

Looking-glass self – the self which produces social interactions.

Seeing oneself is based on considering one’s personal qualities and

the perception of oneself is also influenced by the impression of
others.

“ I am not what I think I am

I am not what you think I am

I am what I think you think I am”

Cooley believed that developing a self has 3 stages;

People imagine how they present themselves to others

People develop some sort of feeling about themselves as a result

of those impressions.

People develop self identities based on the wrong perception of

how others see them. Wrong perceptions however, can still
change on positive social experience.

ERVING GOFFMAN (1922 -1982):

The presentation of the Self in Everyday Life – people in their early

interactions learned to slant their self-representations in order to
way the person presents himself to others whom he calls
impression management.

He used the phrase Face-work to describe another aspect of the

create preferred appearances and satisfy individuals or alter the
self.

This was observed in situations where face-saving measures

resorted to in the maintenance of a proper image of self frustrating
or embarrassing situations.