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1. The Self , society, and culture

2. What is the relationship between external reality and the self? In the story ‘’ Tarzan’’ –Tarzan grew up acting strangely like apes and unlike human persons. Tarzan became animal, in effect. His sole interaction with them made him just like one of them. Human persons will not develop as human persons without intervention. Ourselves are truly products of our interaction with external reality.

3. The Self In contemporary literature and even common sense, is commonly defined by the following characteristics: ‘’ separate , self-contained, independent, consistent, unitary and private’’. (Stevens 1996). The self is always unique and has its own identity. Self is also self-contained with its own thoughts, characteristics, and volition. Social constructivists argue that the self should not be seen as a static entity that stays constant through and through. The self has to be seen as something that is unceasing flux, in a constant struggle with external reality and is malleable in its dealings with society.

4. The self and culture According to MARCEL MAUSS , every self has two faces : personne and moi . Moi - refers to a person’s sense of who he is, his body, and his basic identity , his biological givenness . Moi is th person’s basic identity. Personne - on the other hand, is composed of the social concepts of what it means to be who he is. Peronne has much to do with what it means to live in a particular institution, a particular family, a particular religion, a particular nationality, and how to behave given expectations and influences from others.

5. The self and culture In the Philippines, Filipinos tend to consider their territory as part of who they are. The Filipino Language ( eq Mahal and Siya )

6. The self and Development of the Social World Language as both publicly shared and privately utilized symbol system is the site where the individual and the social make and remake each other ( Schwartz, White and Lutz 1993) Mead and Vygotsky –use the language acquisition and interaction with others.

7. Self in families The kind of family that we are born in the resources available to us and the kind of development that we will have certainly affect us. One is who he is because of his family for the most part.

8. Gender and the self Gender has to be personally discovered and asserted and not dictated by culture and the society.