Essay on Social Self: Influence of Others on Self-Perception

This essay delves into the concept of the social self, examining how our self-perception is significantly influenced by the perceptions and thoughts of others. It explores key concepts such as self-esteem, social interest, and self-complexity, highlighting the importance of social interactions in shaping our identity and mental well-being. The essay references the work of William James, the theory of self-discrepancy, and the concept of the Looking-Glass Self to illustrate how we internalize the views of others, particularly those in our close social circles. It also discusses the impact of social media on self-esteem and the phenomenon of self-labelling, including internalized prejudice. The essay concludes by emphasizing the critical role of self-analysis in understanding the positive and negative aspects of social influence on our self-perception. The assignment includes a list of relevant references from books and journals to support the arguments and analysis.

Describe the notion of
social selves

Contents
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Social self refers to the idea of making perception on ourselves on the basis of others. It
includes the concept of building relationship, empathizing, and communicating (Charmaz,
Harris, and Irvine, 2019.). The perception that an individual form surely impacts overall mental
wellbeing and determine the ability to achieve life goals. A theory named self-discrepancy
explains that every individual have three selves instead of single self and they are: The actual
self( Which defines our identity at the current situation), The ideal self( defines what we want to
become), The ought self( defines other's expectations from us). This essay will include
information about how other's perception and way of thinking about you impacts your way of
life and personality framing. Through this one can understand the factors of self-perception and
view point of experts and researchers about particular essay.
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TASK 1
Social-self is the analysis of self concept on the basis of social nature about ourselves.
The min importance is on self-esteem with social interest, self-complexity, openness,
marginality, identification. Mental Health Million MHQ explain some points about a person who
have a positive social self . Some experiences that might be experienced by such people are: A
sense of self worth in a healthy manner, Strong emotional connections with relatives, family and
friends. It is observed that they experience the feeling of satisfaction during physical intimacy in
relationships and fully enjoy the movements ( Semmer and et. al., 2021). Provides an ability to
communicate effectively and appropriately with people in verbal and non-verbal mode. Social
self-analysis are based on the beliefs related to one's abilities, emotions, behaviour, and attitudes.
According to William James, social self is the second category of the empirical self. He states
social self as the concept of how we are recognized and regarded by others. James explained four
constituents of material self as: our body, immediate family, clothes, and home. It is a topic of a
big concern to realise the contribution of social media in making our perception (Lieberman,
Straccia, Meyer, and Tan, K.M., 2019). It is analysed by many studies that social networking
sites observed to be negatively impact the self-esteem of an individual. But it is also true that self
perception is a complete personal theory and no can set boundaries on perception that one
receives about self or others. The concept of Looking-Glass Self states that our perception on
ourselves highly impacts on the perception that how other's see us (Celikates, 2018). For
example, we might feel that we are intelligent and smart enough just because others compliment
us that way and it is predicted that we greatly influence mainly by the people from our friends
group or family. Self-labelling is a term which defines our ability to label ourselves on repeated
evaluation and labelling based on others. The effect of this self-labelling is that we start
questioning ourselves and ours self-esteem appear to depend on the nature of labels given by
others. One of the impact of self-labelling is that people start experience “internalized prejudice”
(Gazo, Mahasneh, and Muhediat, 2020). It is a condition in which an individual turn prejudice
directed toward them by others onto themselves.
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CONCLUSION
In given essay, the discussion is about Social-self that mainly focus on the feeling and
experience of a person about themselves on the basis of other's thoughts. People themselves start
making a self- perception related to others. The essay involves the impact of social-self and
causes that influence self-perception. It also deals with the related circumstances and importance
of self-analysis in a positive and negative way.
REFERENCES
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Books and Journals:
Celikates, R., 2018. Critique as social practice: Critical theory and social self-understanding.
Rowman & Littlefield.
Charmaz, K., Harris, S.R. and Irvine, L., 2019. The social self and everyday life: Understanding
the world through symbolic interactionism. John Wiley & Sons.
Gazo, A.M., Mahasneh, A.M., and Muhediat, F.A., 2020. Social self-efficacy and its relationship
to loneliness and internet addiction among hashemite university students. International
Journal of Higher Education, 9(2), pp.144-155.
Lieberman, M.D., Straccia, M.A., Meyer, M.L., and Tan, K.M., 2019. Social, self,(situational),
and affective processes in medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC): Causal, multivariate, and
reverse inference evidence. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 99, pp.311-328.
Semmer, N.K., Jacobshagen, N., Keller, A.C. and Meier, L.L., 2021. Adding insult to injury:
Illegitimate stressors and their association with situational well-being, social self-
esteem, and desire for revenge. Work & Stress, 35(3), pp.262-282.
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