SOCY 273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bundle Theory

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 273
• Professor: Robyn Sattlink

Document Summary

Mead sense of self is contingent on how we experience others" conceptions of us through interactions. Self-schema: collection of ideas or organizaed body of knowledge about ourselves attitudes, likes/dislikes, personality traits, information/misinformation, associated affect, etc. Schematic vs. ashematic dimensions schematic: important issues/topics relevant to our self-schemas; influence how we process world aschematic: elements/traits not important to us in who we are. Consequences for info processing, perception of others & memory. Self-reference effect: rememebr info better if we can integrate it into our self-schema (personal application) more connections to self enables faster and better memory recall of info. Self concept (version or idea about self) has consequences for cognition & behaviour is fluid & open to change. Working self-concept: currently active/salient collection of self concepts. Dynamic self-concept: the working self-concept is drawn from a larger pool of potential self-representations. Independent view of self: internal thoughts, feelings, actions separate or distinct from others. West individualistic; value autonomy & uniqueness.