Monday, December 7, 2009

Concept that needs more discussion

I think that how the self-concept is constructed needs further construction. There was not much discussion about interpersonal communication’s self, a topic that includes the looking-glass self-concept. One constructs a view of oneself through the numerous interactions within the course of an individual’s life, and the continuously knowledge that gets built up after each new experience. If parents and others tell one specific girl that she is beautiful continuously, praising her and spoiling her, that girl may deem herself as beautiful. This then raises her self-esteem and self-confidence in herself as a beautiful person, which should normally garner attention and thus influencing her daily behavior and attitude. This may include activities such as spending more time and money on herself with the reasoning that it is worth it. She may feel inadequate about other traits other than her beauty if the dialogues of her interpersonal relationships are solely centered on beauty rather than intellect, athleticism or other traits. Thus she may solely focus on keeping that beauty or enhancing it, feeling that this beauty is the one good trait that she has. There are many ways in which the relationships that one has affects how one sees oneself and also the world and thus behave within that reality.

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  1. I think that how the self is constructed would have also been a great area of discussion. I completely agree with you that the looking glass self concept is one of the most interesting areas of communication. I liked your discussion of how people develop a concept of self.

    It is interesting to me how you brought up self esteem. I think that would have been a really interesting area to cover. How does our self esteem really develop is it because of others, ourselves??. I have always been told since I was a child that I had low self esteem. Currently I think that I do have slightly low self esteem but I don't know if that was from years of being told that or not.

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