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- Sociological theories of the self attempt to explain how social processes such as socialization influence the development of the self.
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Differentiate psychological and sociological theories of self-development. Explain the process of moral development. When we are born, we have a genetic makeup and biological traits. However, who we are as human beings develops through social interaction.
Oct 22, 2018 · The concept of self is widely employed by sociologists to represent the way in which individual persons come to understand who they are in relation to others, and the way in which individual actions are motivated, planned, and adjusted within a social setting.
Jan 1, 2013 · In this chapter we discuss the philosophical foundations of the concept of self and then address more recent theoretical and empirical refinements in self and self-concept research in the social sciences, particularly sociological social psychology.
- Timothy J. Owens, Sarah Samblanet
- 2013
Many scholars, both in the fields of psychology and in sociology, have described the process of self-development as a precursor to understanding how that “self” becomes socialized. In this section we will begin by exploring some psychological perspectives on the self and follow that with how sociologists have understood the self.
The self-concept is undergoing something of a renaissance in contemporary social psychology. It has, of course, been a central concept within symbolic interactionism since the seminal writings of Mead (1934), Cooley (1902), and James (1890). However, even within this sociological tradition there has been.
Mead developed a specifically sociological theory of the path of development that all people go through by focusing on the developing capacity to put oneself in the place of another, or role play: the four stages of child socialization.
