The Social Self London School of Economics社会自我伦敦经济学院.pptVIP

The self is born in social interaction Possibilities for agency and social change Limited by relations of power and ideologies of difference * * * Classic theories of self – namely Mead, in many ways are suprisingly modern. The human psyche is collective, cultural and historical. The ways we learn to think, communicate and build a sense of identity – is always within a community of others – hence the psychological is fundamentally cultural and historical. * What is more is that we CANNOT …. Regardless which field of psychology we look at Social, Evolutionary, Developmental or Primate Psychology. Harry Harlow is most famous for his experiments on monkeys which examined the effects of raising monkeys in complete isolation and demonstrated the importance of companionship and love for the young primate. Eg –Apart from humans only chimps and apes will recognise their reflection in a mirror. But NOT when they had been raised in isolation – no recognition, no sense of self…. However after 3 months of social experience and physical contact with other chimpanzees – they will start to recognise themselves in a mirror. This demonstrates the vital important of others in the development of self-consciousness. (Zazzo, 1975). * Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1997) Finding the Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life. New York: Harper Collins. The Greek word ‘idiot’ originally meant someone who lived by himself: it was assumed that cut off from community interaction such a person would be, by definition, mentally incompetent. Feral children (who survive in the wild without human contact) demonstrate the vital importance of human relationships for the development of human psychological capacities (such as language, empathy and self-consciousness). * * 2.?????????? The self as product of social interaction ? George Herbert Mead (1863–1931) One of the earliest and still the greatest contributors to the social psychology of “selfhood” is G.H. Mead. ? Ke