The Material Self

Question 1

He describes the self as the “sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands, and yacht, and back account”

Answer 1

William James

Question 2

Refers to the material and non-material objects possessed by the individual which he or she can personally or intimately call as “mine” or “my”

Answer 2

Material self

Question 3

What is the basic component of the material self?

Answer 3

body

Question 4

One task of adolescents (in terms of the material self)

Answer 4

Accept and appreciate the physical characteristics of their body

Question 5

Another component of the material self aside from the body

Answer 5

Clothes

Question 6

_______ represent the self

Answer 6

clothes

Question 7

_______ can also symbolically define a person’s identity

Answer 7

Pets

Question 8

A person’s _____ can be an expression of one’s social status, pride, and prestige, as in owning an expensive breed

Answer 8

Pet

Question 9

Regardless of how much or how little material possessions people have, they remain valuable because these possessions are symbolic of one’s _________

Answer 9

social status

Question 10

He suggests that material possessions acts as an objective manifestation of the self

Answer 10

Russell Belk (1988, in his work Are We What We Own?)

Question 11

Russell Belk suggests that ________ acts as an objective manifestation of the self

Answer 11

material possessions

Question 12

________ refers to giving more importance to material possessions than intangible values

Answer 12

materialism

Question 13

Type of person who is excessively concerned with the acquisition of material possessions

Answer 13

Materialistic person

Question 14

Characterized by an obsession with shopping and buying behaviors

Answer 14

Obsessive buying disorder

Question 15

A social system in which consumptions is dominated by the consumption of commercial products

Answer 15

consumer culture

Question 16

Denotes a social arrangement in which the meaningful ways of life and the symbolic and material resources on which they depend, are mediated through markets

Answer 16

consumer culture

Question 17

A society in which people spend a great deal of time, money, and energy to “consume” commercial products, goods, and services

Answer 17

Consumerist society

Question 18

The consumption of material goods and services in excess of one’s basic needs. It is closely tied to materialism

Answer 18

Consumerism