Anthropology views the self as culturally constructed and variable, focusing on understanding human cultures, while sociology takes a macro view of how society influences individuals. Anthropology sees the self as comprising physical, psychological, and social attributes that can shift depending on context. The self is embedded in and shaped by one's culture, which influences relationships, personality traits, achievements, and emotional expression.
Anthropology views the self as culturally constructed and variable, focusing on understanding human cultures, while sociology takes a macro view of how society influences individuals. Anthropology sees the self as comprising physical, psychological, and social attributes that can shift depending on context. The self is embedded in and shaped by one's culture, which influences relationships, personality traits, achievements, and emotional expression.
Anthropology views the self as culturally constructed and variable, focusing on understanding human cultures, while sociology takes a macro view of how society influences individuals. Anthropology sees the self as comprising physical, psychological, and social attributes that can shift depending on context. The self is embedded in and shaped by one's culture, which influences relationships, personality traits, achievements, and emotional expression.
Anthropology views the self as culturally constructed and variable, focusing on understanding human cultures, while sociology takes a macro view of how society influences individuals. Anthropology sees the self as comprising physical, psychological, and social attributes that can shift depending on context. The self is embedded in and shaped by one's culture, which influences relationships, personality traits, achievements, and emotional expression.
PERSON IN CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY SOCIOLOGY
Emphasis on culture and its Emphasis on society and its
physical and social origins and development (social characteristics (kinship, classes, institutions and language, religion, gender, art, structures, social movements) etc.)
Micro-level focus – studies how Macro-level focus – studies how
individuals, families, and the larger society and social communities engage with the trends affect individuals, larger society and social trends families, and communities
It is done to understand It is done to solve contemporary
different cultures social problems ANTHROPOLOGY it is the study of people, past and present. it focuses on understanding the human condition in its cultural aspect. it is concerned with understanding how humans evolved and how they differ from one another.
A UNIT BUT UNITARY
Anthropologist and professor, Katherine Ewing (1990), described the self as encompassing the “physical organism, possessing psychological functioning and social attributes.” Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux (2002) conceptualized the implicit and explicit aspects of the self. Explicit is the aspect of self that you are consciously aware of. Implicit is the one that is not immediately available to the consciousness. This concept can be traced to the famous psychologist Sigmund Freud's level of consciousness. According to LeDoux (2002), “the self is not static; it is added to and substract from by genetic maturation, learning, forgetting, stress, ageing and disease.” SELF AS REPRESENTATION
Ewing (1989) asserted that a “self” is illusory.
“People construct a series of self-representations that are based on
selected cultural concepts of person and selected 'chains' of personal memories. Each self-concept is experienced as whole and continuous, with its own history and memories that emerge in a specific context to be replaced by another self-representation when the context changes.” According to Ewing (1990), people from all cultures have been observed to be able to rapidly project different self-representation, depending on the context of the situation. The person is unaware of these shifts; however, he/she will still experience wholeness and continuity despite of these shifts. THE SELF EMBEDDED IN CULTURE
Cultural anthropologists have argued that the self is culturally shaped
and infinitely variable.
The basic idea is that the principles of how the mind works cannot be conceived of as universal, but that it is varied as the culture and traditions that people practice all over the world. Cultural psychologists distinguished two ways of how the self is constructed. These are independent and interdependent constructs. The independent construct is characteristic of individualistic culture. The interdependent construct is typical of the collectivist culture. Developmental psychologist Catherine Raef (2010), believed that culture can influence how you view: relationships, personality traits, achievement, and expressing emotions. Culture influences how you enter Culture influence whether (and into and maintain relationships. how) you value traits, like humility, self-esteem, politeness, Relationships may be seen as assertiveness and so on, as well voluntary or as duty-based. as how you perceive hardship or how you feel about relying on others. Culture influences how you Culture influences what will define success and whether affect you emotionally, as you value certain types of well as how you express individual and group yourself, such as showing achievements. your feelings in public or keeping it private.