KNOWLEDGE AND THE KNOWER

• CORE THEME :
SCOPE
Q: Can other people know you better than
you know yourself?
 Practical personal exercice:

• Choose one person from the different social groups you are a member of:
• 1. Your closest family (parent/guardian, sibling)
• 2. Your closest friends
• 3. Your extended family (eg a grandparent or cousin)
• 4. One of your classes in school
• 5. A club/team/religious community you are a member of
 Ask them three questions after you have first
answered them yourself:

• 1. How they see you ten years from now? (occupation, civil status, where you will live
etc)
• 2. One quality of your they wish they had.
• 3. One quality of yours they would like to see change.

• Compare the answers and reflect upon the initial question: Can other
people know you better than you know yourself?
 What conclusions can you draw from the answers
you got?

• Do other people have more knowledge

of you than you do about yourself?
• Is self-knowledge more than other
people´s knowledge of you?
• It may be worthwile to look at the
different ways in which self-knowledge
is linked with the presence of others.
Others and us…
 Find out more about these social-self
theories and concepts:
1. Looking-glass self
2. Labeling and labeling bias
3. Social comparison theory
4. Social identity theory
5. Self-evaluation maintenance theory
6. Self presentation
 Here is a link you can use…

• HTTPS://OPENTEXTBC.CA/SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY/CHAPTER/THE-SOCIAL-SELF-THE-
ROLE-OF-THE-SOCIAL-SITUATION/

• You can also use other sources that you find online
 Based on your reading, revisit and re-evaluate your initial response to the question…

Reflect upon your thoughts!

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before midnight Tuesday 9/9.
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