Personality and Social Self

Social Interaction:
Link between individual and society
Socialization makes possible the survival of society and its members because it is the process through which culture is passed from one generation to the next, through which social structures are maintained and through which new members are nurtured.

Personality
is the combination of fairly stable traits that define social members as unique Individuals. It was developed through experience of our social environment as well as social interaction

Social Interaction:
Social Self
We develop one in interaction with other people. The self is also a product our social experiences and how we make sense of them.

George Herbert Mead (1863-1931

Active and Spontaneous Component
-called as the I, The I is the self as creative subject.

Objective Component - the Me, which is how we think other people see us, its the self as reflexive object

STATUSES. Ordinarily, the term status means prestige.

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However, in sociology status refers particularly to a position in social structure; any position that determines where a person fits within the society.
e.g. For instance, being a student, a professor, a maintenance worker, and a security guard are statuses in school setting.

Individuals occupy may statuses simultaneously at a given time. All statuses a certain person holds at a given time are what sociologist refer to as status set.

ASCRIBED STATUS and ACHIVED STATUS. These are two basic types of
statuses. Some statuses are assigned to people without effort on their part.
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They are called ascribed status, the social position that is received at birth or involuntarily assumed later in the life course.
e.g. ones being a daughter a daughter, ones being a teenager, ones being a senior citizen, or ones being a widow.

On the other hand, achieved status refers to a social position that is assumed voluntarily and that reflects a significant measure of personal ability and efforts.
e.g. For instance, a boy is also a son to the parents, a student to his teachers, a grandson to his grandparents, a buyer to a vendor, a client to the school counselor.

Opportunity Structure. A path to success.

e.g. For instance, the achieved status of the son of a squatters family living along the railways in Manila is different from that son of rich businessmen living in Forbes Park in Makati.
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Master Statuses.
e.g. The late Fernando Poe , Jr. was more known for his being Da King or King of Philippine Movies, than the husband of Susan Roces. - These are the statuses that dominate others and thereby determine a persons general position within society. - status that has exceptional importance for social identity, often shaping a persons life. It is usually a crucial element of ones self-concept and may be the result of any combination of ascription and achievement.

ROLES.

Every status carries with it socially prescribed roles, that is, expected behavior, obligations, and privileges. Role is the second major component of social structure. It refers to patterns of expected behavior attached to a particular status. It may referred to as the dynamic expression of a status. Role refers to the collection of cultural defined rights, obligations, and expectations that accompany a status in the social system. People learn how to play their roles by observing and interacting with other people who are more experienced than themselves. This process is known as socialization.

ROLES STRAIN, ROLE CONFLICT AND ROLE EXIT.

Role Strain - the problems of individuals in meeting or fulfilling their roles. - refers to incompatibility among the roles corresponding to a single status. Role Conflict - occurs when the carrying out of one role automatically results in the violation of another. Role Exit - is the process by which people disengage from social roles that have been central to their lives.