Professor Mead, Whatever Makes Up Consciousness Has Essay

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¶ … Professor Mead, whatever makes up consciousness has social origin. Inner consciousness has been organized socially through importation of the outer world. Other people's consciousness proceeds self-consciousness. The 'I' is not possible to immediately appear within consciousness and there is no way it can be conscious of itself. Appearing self as 'I', forms the memory image of the self that acts towards himself and is the similar self that acts towards the rest of selves. Whatever stuff that ends up forming 'me' is the induced experience by such action of the 'I'. The consciousness of 'me' is of the similar character like the one which comes up from the other's action upon him, G.H. Mead, (1912). Meaning that as the individual come to find himself act with reference to himself when acting towards others, he becomes a subject to himself instead of object, and just when he is affected by social conduct of his own similarly to his being affected by the others, makes him to be an object to social conduct of his own.

Professor Mead analyses social self by calling attention of the people to the fact that a constant factor of awareness exist in whatever we say, do or think, based on our consciousness. It is kind of our activities inner response. Such inner observer should not be mistaken with the 'I' or our action implied object. Mead says that the observer who goes with our self-conduct tends not to be the real 'I' that is answerable for the conduct within 'propria persona' but instead it is made response to the conduct of his own. Such individual response to the stimulation of his own is because an individual is not capable of hearing himself speaking failing to assume the attitude in a measure that he was capable of assuming in any case it was addressed in the similar words by another, G.H. Mead,(1913).

Self-efficacy

People tend to be highly inclined on taking a task when they are certain that they are capable of succeeding. Generally people do not go for tasks...

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Individuals with self-efficacy, significantly more than their actual ability, they most of the time overestimate their task completion ability, and might result to difficulties. The fact that I chose to take part in football but not other games was because I could do better in football, where self-efficacy is high, as compared to other games. In any case I could decide to take another game where self-efficacy was lower than my ability, this could have made me not to expand and grow my skills. Since optimum level of self-efficacy tends to be slightly more than ability, this made me to tackle challenging tasks and achieve valuable experience. From high self-efficacy, more effort was applied as well as longer persistence, Schwarzer, R. (Ed.). (1992.
Self-concept

It can also be referred to as self-identity, self-perspective or self-construction. It can be described as a multi-dimensional construct that refers to the perception of an individual about self based on whichever number of characteristics, for example gender roles and sexuality, academics and non-academics, racial identity as well as many others. It is related to self-concept clarity very closely, that can be described as the extent to which self knowledge is defined confidently and clearly, temporally stable and internally consistence, it presupposes though can be distinguished from self-awareness, which is just awareness of an individual about their self. It again tends to be more general as compared t self-esteem, which only evaluate element of self-concept.

As applied to our daily life whether at home or in the institutions, disparity in the self-concept involving genders starts to develop during early ages due to segregation in terms of gender which is being enacted by self-directed behaviors of children and even adults. When we were young boys and girls had the tendency of playing separately in spite of the activity, and it…

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Branden, N. (1969). The psychology of self-esteem. New York: Bantam.

G.H. Mead, (1912) "The Mechanism of Social Consciousness," Journal of Philosophy, IX, 401.

G.H. Mead,(1913) "The Social Self," Journal of Philosophy, X, 374-75.

Schwarzer, R. (Ed.). (1992). Self-efficacy: Thought control of action. Washington, DC: Hemisphere.


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