We lived in a world, where people interact with each other without even knowing that it happened. Each person has their own true personality and a true self-image of one self. Sometimes people reveal their true identity consciously. They cannot see it themselves because they are unaware of what is happening. People around you whom are close to you such as friends and family would be able to see what kind of person are you. When observing an individual or a group of people, you can see how they act and feel about certain situation. In my observation, I will be observing a group of patients waiting impatiently in the reception area of the pulmonologist doctor office. I will observe the patient’s behavior, body language, and use of language. …show more content…
This is known as social influence, an exercise of social power by a person or group to change the attitudes or behavior of others. Other people can influence the way we think and do things. Influences can change our mind when making a decision. A type of social influence is conformity, which yield to copy the behavior and belief of others. An example of conformity would be yawning because it is contagious. When you see a person yawns, you automatic yawn yourself. Conformity is applied to my observation because one patient tends to copy the behavior of another by getting out of their seats, and asking the receptionist about the number of patients in front of them. It is contagious because every patient wants to know how much more time they have to wait. But they always wait for one person to get up and ask, and then they followed. When the patient “overhears” the conversation, this is a form of cognitive miser. Cognitive miser is able to hear someone’s voice through loud background noises without being aware of it. With the all the noises coming from conversation between patients, patient’s snoring, and loud television sound, patient somehow hears the conversation between a patient and the receptionist. Patients are being alert at all time in any situation, even when they see someone going before them, but believe they arrived after them. Time is very consuming, like what people usually would say “Time is Money.” Especially in the city of New York, everyone’s time is
We think people act the way that their true identity is. Every person has disguised
In the real life, it is hard to judge our personal identity: we are aware of who we are every second and minute, we also are able to check our appearance that we have known since we were born from looking at mirror. We know “I am myself” all the time.
One’s surroundings influence his/her actions, which lead to how a person might see one as, and one’s outer appearance should be true and make him/ her feel confident to help show his/ her true identity. However, why should one care what his/her identity is like? How does it benefit him/her? The real question is, how can one make his/her identity better? Or why is one’s identity important? The answers to those questions are completely decided by one who decides what he/she wants to change. That one person can change himself or herself forever, or let the world change him/her
Conformity means a change in one’s behavior due to the real or imagined influence of other people. As a teenager, the pressure to conform to the societal “norm” plays a major role in shaping one’s character. Whether this means doing what social groups want or expect you to do or changing who you are to fit in. During class, we watched films such as Mean Girls, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and The Breakfast Club which demonstrate how the pressure to conform into society can change who you are. In the movies we have seen, conformity was most common during high school.
It is very common to see conformity among young people, especially when large groups of young people are constantly around each other. School is one example where conformity is rampant. For some reason people tend to gravitate towards what others are doing. In Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, Never Let Me Go, the characters are no different from any other young person in that they tend to conform. Ishiguro shows this conformity to prove that conformity stems from the want to fit in and pure ignorance. At Hailsham, the students conform just to fit in with the rest of the students, but they also conform because they do not know any better.
In the article “In Defense of Masks” by Kenneth Gergen, he claims that instead of developing “a coherent sense of identity”, people put on different “masks” that he constantly changes. Gergen believes that an individual’s development of a coherent sense of identity can make him “experience severe emotional distress”. People tend to act a certain way so they can receive the approval of others. The approval of others can bring satisfaction and enhance the self-esteem of a person but to succeed in this he must adopt different public identities. Moreover, in some cases individuals consciously wear various masks because of the situation they’re found in.
The term of “bystander effect” was coined to explain the lack of action in an emergency situation when more people are nearby. Psychologists had tried to explain the absurd phenomena for years. Finally, in an eventful lunch, American psychologists Darley and Latane discussed to show and explain why such an event occurred. They designed an experiment where participants were asked to sit down in individual cubicles and could communicate with other subjects over an intercom system. There was actually only one real participant in the study; the other participants were pre-recorded voices, including one person that had a seizure. The researchers manipulated the...
In both perspectives, acting solely for the sake of acting is not possible. All actions are social performances that give off impressions of “self” to other actors in society based upon past experiences and typifications. Berger and Luckmann offer a treatise on the social construction of reality that outlines how we formulate the idea of the “self” in social society and how reality itself is socially constructed. “Knowledge must always be knowledge from a certain position.” It is our social position that guides our perceptions of reality and allows us to embrace our idea of “self” within reality.
In some sense people are more truthful in their behavior when they don’t know that they are being observed. On the other hand “People may behave differently when they know they are being watched. Sometimes people try to behave better that they normally would in order to appear more socially desirable or acceptable” (3) and this could be contributed as a downside of naturalistic observation. Only in my personal opinion my individual research was successful, but quite inadequate in providing solid and undisputable evidence, possibly my research would benefit from more observation and data
How we perceive ourselves and how others perceive us. Throughout the interview I knew that the way I interacted within the group would determine whether or not I would be able to study as a student nurse. Subsequently, I wanted to appear socially desirable. Therefore, I believe there was a distortion of self-image because the interview was very important to me. Using Goffman 's theory of self (1959), the 'social mask ' I put on during the interview, could be seen as 'performance ', '...the term ‘performance’ refers to all activity of an individual in front of a particular set of observers, or audience... ' , I wasn 't my: bubbly, hyper self, I felt I had to keep this hidden as I was in a professional environment. Therefore, Johari 's window demonstrates mundane realism, because my self-image did change. My bubbly, hyper personality which is usually 'open/public ' was now 'Hidden/private '. However, Johari 's window see 's self-awareness constructed by the individual alone, which makes the theory over –simplified and not interactionist as it only considers 'nurture ' factors impacting on an individual’s self-awareness, when in reality it’s a combination of biological/genetic and social factors (nature nurture). Therefore the theory is reductionist as it over simplifies human behaviour. Although Johari 's window doesn 't give a holistic reflection for my own self-awareness and communication, the fact I can identify this as a result of using Gibb’s model means that I have a rounded analysis of my interviewing
Ackerman suggests that the individual has both a private “inner self” and a social "outer self” that emphasizes externally oriented aspects of his or her personality (Shulman, 2009). When clients are in a group setting, they present their outer self as a way of adapting to the pressures and demands of the group context (Shulman, 2009). For instance, when the question was picked ‘if you can be with anyone in the world, who would it be?’ the participant answered that she would want to be with her grandmother who passed away. This answer could mean that the participant misses her grandmother, or that she feels sad about
There are many sides to this argument. The first is that Shylock does not sin at all, the second is that all the characters sin as much as each other, the third that Shylock is the only one who sins, the fourth that they all sin, but Shylock sins the most making the above statement false, and the fifth way of arguing it is to agree with the statement.
“I am who I think others think I am”. Charles Horton Cooley created the looking glass self, stating that people grow from their perceptions of other people. There are three steps to his concept: imagining how we appear to others; are we funny or dull? What do people really think about me? The next step is imagining the judgment other people think of us; do they like us funny or dull? The third step is developing the self-concept or feeling about the situation. Dramaturgy is when you feel like your life is a drama or play. In this, we have an idea of what how we want others to think of us as. We put on a performance or a presentation self to the people we want to think we are similar. Conformity is what we do every day; we are meant to go to wake up, go to school, then make dinner and go to bed. We go along with whatever group we feel we want to belong to or already belong to. The true definition is “behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards”. Conformity could be even
The humanistic view on personality and identity helps us define a person’s self-worth, self-image, and ideal self. Carl Rogers, a humanistic psychologist, helped define these terms by coming up with the idea of “Self-Actualization.” Self-actualization is when a person’s idea self matches their self-image. A person’s ideal self is who they would like to become, which consists of goals and dreams that the person would like to accomplish. While, a person’s self-image is how that person perceives themselves, which can shape how that person may act and feel. Also, from the Neo-Freudian perspective in psychology, Carl Jung presents his major archetypes of personality and identity, one of them being the idea of a “persona.” He states that a person’s persona is “how we present ourselves to the world” and goes on about saying how our personality is a mask, which may change depending on the different social groups you are with, which will contribute to your identity and how people perceive you. Through the sense of ideal self, self-image, and persona, identity is something that is situated on the inside but can be shown and communicated to other
This lack of awareness does not bode well for human nature as this makes humans susceptible to heinous acts; demonstrating that there may be no innate moral code to humans, and in the event, there is a guideline, it can be overruled by authority. Moreover, social psychology demonstrates how an aspect of human nature is the need to feel accepted and fit in; the motivation for why individuals conform or give into social norms. Overall, the whole purpose of social psychology is to be able to draw general assumption from accepted phenomena to predict individuals’ reactions to certain social stimulus. It relies on social context heavily, and would not divulge any knowledge if there was only one individual present. Fundamentally, social psychology depends on group dynamics, or perceived presence of others in order to draw any conclusion about human nature. Thus, social psychology is insightful in regard to human nature when in a social environment, but not human nature on the individual scale. All social psychology phenomena are contingent on a perceived/actual presence of others or group dynamics; the mannerisms of human nature in social context cannot be applied to the