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TOPIC OUTLINE

SOCIAL SELF

I. Introduction to Social Self


A. Definition of Social Self- Social self refers to how we perceive ourselves in relation to
others. It involves relationship building, empathizing, and communicating. A healthy, or
not so healthy, social self will also impact your overall mental wellbeing and ability to meet
life goals.
B. Importance of Social Self – Helps people to find their identity, value, and place in their
communities. Social interactions and relationships provide a person with a feeling of
identity and belonging, encouragement, interpersonal abilities, and general mental well-
being.

II. Some authorities on the notion of the social self


A. George Herbert Mead: Sociologist and philosopher George Herbert Mead is credited with
creating the notion of the social self. He claimed that the self is built and developed via
social interactions with others, rather than being intrinsic or permanent.
B. Charles Horton Cooley: A sociologist, Cooley proposed the notion of the “looking glass
self,” which argues that a person’s sense of self is established by how they experience
themselves through the eyes of others.
C. Herbert Blumer: established the symbolic interactionist approach, which stresses the
significance of language and symbols in developing an individual’s sense of self.

III. Types of Social Self


A. The public self- the aspect of an individual’s social self that is displayed to others in public.
This might include an individual’s communal roles, self-presentation, and how they show
themselves to others
B. The ideal self- an aspect of a person’s social self that expresses their idealized view of
themselves. This might include the objectives, aspirations, and attributes that a person
aspires to have. This is the sort of person we want to be.
C. Actual self- The component of an individual’s social self that represents their current reality
and the features and attributes that they actually possess is known as the actual self. This
is where we are right now in terms of who we are
D. Role self- The component of an individual’s social self that is influenced by the roles they
fulfil within their social group or groups is referred to as the role self. These responsibilities
might include their position within the family, such as their son or daughter, or their role
within the community as volunteers or employees.

IV. Components of Social Self


A. Self concept - Answers the question ‘Who I am?”
B. Self Esteem- Senses of Self Worth
C. Self Knowledge- Answers the question “How can I explain and predict myself?”
V. Concepts Explaining The Social Self
A. The looking-glass self- Tells us parts of how we see ourselves comes from the perception
of how the others see us. This theory suggests that our self concept is not built on our
solitude—isolation from others, but from our interaction with them through different
social setting.
1. An individual in a social situation imagines how they appear to others.
2. That individual imagines others’ judgment of that appearance.
3. The individual develops feelings about and responds to those perceived
judgements.
B. The Labeling theory- It pertains to instances where an individual accepts a label that
was given to him by someone else after they have performed a certain action that
deemed inappropriate for a specific social situation.
C. Social Comparison Theory- occurs as the last stage of the social identity theory and as a
concept, it happens when we learn about our abilities, skills, appropriateness and validity
of our opinions, and about our relative social status by comparing our own attitudes,
beliefs, and behaviors with those of others
1. Downward Social Comparison- occurs when we attempt to create a positive
image of ourselves through favorable comparisons who are worse of than we
are.
2. Upward Social Comparison- we compare ourselves to someone who are better
of than we are.
D. Self-evaluation maintenance theory- asserts that are self esteem can be threatened when
someone else outperforms us, especially if that person is close to us and the performance
domain is central to our self concept.
E. Self-discrepancy theory- proposes that we have not one but three selves: the actual self,
the ideal self, and the ought self.
1. The actual self is your idea of who you are right now.
2. The ought self is the version of yourself that you think other people want or
expect. (For example, you might think your parents want you to have a very
high-paying job.)
3. The ideal self is the version of yourself that you’d like to be. (For example, you
might want to be much more extroverted, or you might wish you were smarter.)

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