SELF-CONCEPT IN THE SOCIAL WORLD

Self-Concept in the Social World



Self-Concept in the Social World

1.Define the concept of the self in the social world

Self-concept

Self-concept in simple words may be defined as a cognitive representation of the self that meets the personal experience of coherence and meaning, including the social relationships that we have with other people (Howard and Judith, 2000). The self-concept organizes experience and helps to recognize relevant stimuli in the social environment.

In other words, it is the set of perceptions, ideas or theories that the individual has about him, and whose construction involved others. Self-concept is self-knowledge, and covers aspects such as perception, autobiographical memory, narrative and evaluative judgments the person makes of him, arising from the comparison with others. All content includes elements of self-concept, cognitive, affective and behavioral and all these elements are consistent with age (Myers, 2010).

The age of adolescence is of immense importance is the recognition and acceptance of others: partners as, friends as a family, which inevitably influences their self-concept and self-esteem and is reflected in the contents of both elements, which also evolve throughout adolescence. From references to personal ties, mainly references to friends who have, to make descriptions based on personal feelings, and whose content will be positive or negative depending on which they have experiences, as well as positive or negative relationships they establish with the significant people in their environment (Myers, 2010).

2.Apply the self to your life, including self-concept, self-esteem, and self-efficacy

Self-concept

As per my experience and observation self-concept may be defined as very convincing array of sociological, which has become one of the pillars to support the studies on the individuals. I refer to the concept of looking glass self: we perceive as we reflect others as our personal identity. Our self-concept is not given at birth but is constructed and keeps on changing every day and every social interaction through the references after interacting with the people around us (Aronson et al, 2002).

It would not be so strange, then, that a person who as a child was clearly defined "obese", "chubby", "round", will undoubtedly perceive that not only visually, these definitions of self from others to come part of the deepest core of identity and become an integral part, so that their removal will then be difficult even in the absence of a true overweight.

Take the idea of being round, therefore, means it will have to reconstruct a part form a new identity. Now, there are parts of personal identity, which are permanent; the sex, race, culture of origin, for example. Most of the constituents but not permanent: the workplace, the residence, economic status or physical appearance. As a manager, who will retire will have an identity crisis due to the sudden change of social status and the fact that he had built his identity as being a manager.

The effects on behavior are immediate and obvious: seeing huge, behave accordingly, and we act as if we were (this is very evident, for example, in the anorexic disorder where the ...