Material/economic Self

Question 1

Why does the concept of self change?

Answer 1

Because of circumstances and influences

Question 2

“Idealized people associated with [the good]”

Answer 2

Symbolism inherent in consumer goods

Question 3

“Lifestyle and identity instruction that convey unadulterated marketplace ideologies”

Answer 3

Consumer culture images

Question 4

Symbolic meanings of actual good advertised

Answer 4

Successful, happy, attractive, and glamorous

Question 5

the sociocultural, experiential, symbolic, and ideological aspects of consumption

Answer 5

Consumer Culture

Question 6

how consumers supposedly maximize utility when they decide which products to purchase, or cognitive psychology

Answer 6

Rational Choice

Question 7

is an entity that stands for another entity, and most importantly it can have meaning only to the extent that it has a shared reality among people

Answer 7

Symbol

Question 8

Why a is a fashion designer can only be considered trendy?

Answer 8

Others share the belief that that is indeed fashionable

Question 9

Advertisement in Consumer Culture is based on two concepts which are ?

Answer 9

Body perfect
Material “good life”

Question 10

Ideal identities

Answer 10

THE “BODY PERFECT” AND THE “GOOD LIFE”

Question 11

Strong sociocultural pressure

Answer 11

Body perfect

Question 12

connected with desirable qualities that are not directly related to appearance.

Answer 12

Halo effect

Question 13

“what is beautiful is good”

Answer 13

Body perfect

Question 14

Who said “Beauty is a greater recommendation that any letter of introduction”

Answer 14

Aristotle, fourth century b.c.

Question 15

What is the sociocultural ideal of female beauty?

Answer 15

Ultra-thinness

Question 16

What have been central to the identity of many women and girls?

Answer 16

Appearance, beauty, and the perfect body

Question 17

Affluent lifestyle, studded with expensive consumer goods, possessions, and activities

Answer 17

Good Life

Question 18

Associated with success, control and autonomy

Answer 18

Good life

Question 19

Consumer Culture, through the “Body Perfect” and the Material “Good life” directly and indirectly affects the ___________ __ _________ of an individual

Answer 19

Concept of identity

Question 20

What does advertising in particular abounds with what type of images?

Answer 20

Ideal identity: good life and body perfect

Question 21

Both have associated values, concerning materialism and the ideal body, which individuals internalize to different degrees as part of their ________ ______ ______?

Answer 21

Personal belief system

Question 22

American philosopher and psychologist, a leader of the philosophical movement of pragmatism and a founder of the psychological movement of functionalism.

Answer 22

William James

Question 23

famous for helping to found psychology as a formal discipline, for establishing the school of functionalism in psychology, and for greatly advancing the movement of pragmatism in philosophy.

Answer 23

William James

Question 24

What are components the William James described?

Answer 24

Constituents
Self feelings
Self-seeking and preservation

Question 25

How is the constituent of self composed of?

Answer 25

Social self Material self Spiritual self Pure ego

Question 26

Is possessions part of one self?

Answer 26

Yes

Question 27

it is clear that between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw . . . a man’s self is the sum total of what he CAN call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, . . . his reputation and works, his land and horses, and bank account . . . If they wax and prosper, he feels triumphant; if they dwindle and die away, he feels cast down.

Answer 27

A close link between possession and self

Question 28

Material objects

Answer 28

Self-extensions

Question 29

Example of material objects that are self-extensions

Answer 29

Tools, musical instruments, books, houses, cars, bikes, clothes, and jewellery

Question 30

Can there be a dividing line between extended self through possessions on one hand and a core self on the other?

Answer 30

No

Question 31

Is unintentional loss of one’s possession, should be regarded as a loss or lessening of self?

Answer 31

Yes

Question 32

Example of unintentional loss of possession and lessening of one self

Answer 32

Handbag snatching can produce not only financial but also an emotional, long-term effects on victims.

Question 33

What os meaning of material self for William James?

Answer 33

bodies, clothes, immediate family and home

Question 34

We are deeply affected by these things because we have put much investment of our self to them.

Answer 34

bodies, clothes, immediate family and home

Question 35

as the innermost part.

Answer 35

Body

Question 36

essential part of the material self.

Answer 36

Clothes

Question 37

hold another great important part of our self

Answer 37

Family

Question 38

is where our heart is

Answer 38

Home

Question 39

We are directly attached to this commodity that we cannot live without.

Answer 39

Body

Question 40

We strive hard to make that this body functions well and do good.

Answer 40

Body

Question 41

Why do we have certain preferential attachment or intimate closeness to certain body parts?

Answer 41

Because od its value to us

Question 42

What was William James influence to believe that clothes is one essential part of material self?

Answer 42

“Philosophy of Dress” by Hermann Lotze

Question 43

Who said this? “any time we bring an object into the surface of our body, we invest that object into the consciousness of our personal existence taking in its contours to be our own making it part of the self.”

Answer 43

Lotze

Question 44

What is the effect of fabric and style of clothes we wear?

Answer 44

Bring sensations and affect our attitudes and behavior

Question 45

Clothing is a form of ____-_________?

Answer 45

Self-expression

Question 46

nearest replica of our self.

Answer 46

Immediate family

Question 47

Why do Our parents and siblings hold another great important part of our self.

Answer 47

What they do or become affects us

Question 48

Example of what does immediate family do or become that affects us.

Answer 48

When a member of the family dies a part of ourselves dies too. The success of our parents and siblings is also our success, same with their failures and shame.

Question 49

It is the earliest nest of our selfhood

Answer 49

Home

Question 50

an extension of self because in it we directly connect our self

Answer 50

Home

Question 51

Does having investment of self to things made us more more attached to it?

Answer 51

Yes

Question 52

If the item of someone you love was left behind by that person as he passed away, do we regard his items in high regard?

Answer 52

Yes

Question 53

Does having collection in different degree of investment of self becomes part of the self?

Answer 53

Yes

Question 54

Conclusions for material self

Answer 54

• “we regard our possessions as part of ourselves. We are what we have and what we posses.” (Russel Belk, 1988) • The possessions that we dearly have tell something about who we are, our self-concept, our past and even our future.