AOD 2
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- Self-esteem
- The level of confidence and satisfaction you have with your self-concept
- Reframing
- We change the interpretation of an event or situation; we take threatening information or events and see something positive in it or vice versa
- Self-affirmations
- Statements you make to yourself affirming your worth
- Gender Identity
- Identity based on our physical sex and psychological gender
- Material Self
- What is physically observable about you, such as your body, clothes, and possessions
- Visualizations
- When you see yourself performing an activity that you are nervous or afraid about as a means of improving your performance
- Symbolic Interaction Theory
- A theory that suggests communication is the most critical influence on our developing sense of self; major theorists include George Herbert Mead and Charles Horton Cooley
- Cultural Identity
- views of ourselves that we share with other people in that culture based on influences in the culture
- Reflected Appraisals
- Explicit and intentional messages from others about how they see us
- Primary Group
- Cooley's idea of the significant others in our lives
- Self
- A unique individuality
- Saving Face
- Preserving our image or face we present after we have perceived a threat to or attack against that face
- Identity
- A sense of self; self-concept
- Ethnic Identity
- Identity based on our race, religion or national origin
- Modeling
- The process of identifying a role model as a basis for possible identity development; an idea of how we want to be
- Immediate Social Comparison
- Comparing yourself with other people in your immediate environment
- Comparison
- A process of self-concept formation in which we compare ourselves to others and then adjust our sense of self
- Face
- Goffman's notion of the self we want to present in interaction
- Self-concept
- Knowing who you are and what makes you different from others
- Ability Identity
- A sense of identity based on our physical ability to perform certain tasks or accomplish certain goals
- Positive Self-Assessment
- A process in which we can build self esteem by accentuating the positive and eliminating the negative
- Self-fulfilling Prophecies
- Expecting that certain things will happen and, by expecting strongly, inadvertently engaging in behavior that increases the chance the expected reality will come to pass
- Age Identity
- A sense of identity based on our chronological age
- Narrative theories
- Theories that propose that we create meaningful or coherent life stories
- Master Identities
- Identities that are absolutely central to how we think of ourselves; other ideas of self or self-concept are related to the master identity
- Distanced Social Comparison
- Comparing yourself to some generalized image or quality portrayed or discussed in the general media
- Psychodynamic theories
- Theories of identity that look at how self-concept changes as individuals try to connect with and separate from others.
- Identity Work
- The communication we use that reinforces, denies, or modifies the image others have of us
- Looking Glass Self
- Cooley's notion that we come to our self concept by holding up a figurative mirror or looking glass in which we see ourselves as others seem to see us
- Social Identities
- Views of ourselves that we share with other people in that culture
- Negotiating Face
- The communication behaviors we use when we are trying to negotiate our identity or 'face' in an interaction
- Spiritual Self
- The self-concept that is related to how we see ourselves in relation to the cosmos, larger systems of meaning, and religion
- Positive Self-Audit
- A process in which we can enhance self-esteem by reviewing one's good characteristics and qualities
- Social Roles
- A second source of social identity; who we are in relation to someone else and what we do
- Spoiled Identities
- Identities we have that are marred or damaged in some way and that we need to contend with; the identity of being mentally ill in a society that does not value or understand mental illness
- Social Self
- How you are seen and responded to by others in your society; the social roles that define us
- Observations
- A process of developing self-concept that involves looking at our own behavior in social settings and judging whether we are living up to our expectations
- Human Identities
- Those we have in common with all other humans
- Class Identity
- Identity based on our socioeconomic status and access to resources
- Sociocultural theories
- see a link between a person's interpersonal contexts, or social systems, which influence self concept through communication
- Role Models
- Someone we see as ideal because of certain characteristics; someone we emulate
- Face Work
- Ongoing, yet often implicit process of trying to present our "face" in interactions
- Personal Identities
- Views of ourselves that distinguish us from other members of the culture
- Altercasting Messages
- Implicit messages from others about how they see us