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    1. The document discusses William James' theory of the material self from his 1890 book The Principles of Psychology. 2. According to James, the material self is composed of our body, clothes, immediate family, and home - the things we consider as our possessions. 3. The document explores how each of these material elements - body, clothes, family, home - become part of our sense of self and personal identity through ownership and intimate connection.

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    1. The document discusses William James' theory of the material self from his 1890 book The Principles of Psychology. 2. According to James, the material self is composed of our body, clothes, immediate family, and home - the things we consider as our possessions. 3. The document explores how each of these material elements - body, clothes, family, home - become part of our sense of self and personal identity through ownership and intimate connection.

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    To Buy or Not To Buy? That Is The Question!: Chapter 2 Lesson 2

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    To buy or Not to Buy?

    That
    Is the Question!
    Chapter 2 Lesson 2
    LESSON OBJECTIVES
    At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
    1. explain the association of self and
    possessions;
    2. identify the role of consumer culture to self
    and identity; and
    3.Appraise one’s self based on the
    description of material self.
    William James
     A Harvard psychologist in the late nineteenth
    century.
    Wrote in his book, The Principles of Psychology in 1890
    that understanding the self can be examined through
    its different components.
    3 components:
    1. Its constituents
    ➢ composed of the material self, the social self, the spiritual self and
    the pure ego.
    2. The self-feelings
    3. Self-seeking and self-preservation
    According to James, the Material
    self is primarily about our bodies,
    clothes, immediate family and
    home.
    Material Self Investment Diagram
    Body

    Clothes

    Immediate
    family

    Home
    Body
    The most innermost part of our material self.
     Intentionally, we are investing in our body.
     We strive hard to make sure that this body functions
    well and good.
    We do have certain preferential attachment or
    intimate closeness to certain body parts because of
    its value to us.
     There were people who get their certain body parts
    insured.
    Clothes
     Influenced by the “Philosophy of Dress” by Herman
    Lotze, James believed that clothing is an essential part
    of the material self.
    Lotze in his book, Microcosmus, stipulates that “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 and
    making it part of the self.”
    Thus, clothes are placed in the second hierarchy of
    material self.
    Clothing is a form of self-expression.
    Immediate family

     Our parents and siblings hold another


    great important part of our self.
     What they do or become affects us.
    We place huge investment in our
    immediate family when we see them as
    the nearest replica of our self.
    Home
     It is where our heart is.
    It is the earliest nest of our selfhood.
    Our experiences inside the home were
    recorded and marked on particular parts
    and things in our home.
    The home thus is an extension of self,
    because in it, we can directly connect our
    self.
    As James (1890)
    described self: “as man’s
    self is the sum total of all
    he CAN call his”
    We Are What We Have
     Belk (1988) stated that “we regard
    our possessions as parts of our selves.
    We are what we have and what we
    possess.”
     The possessions that we dearly have
    tell something about who we are.
    Our self-concept, our past and even
    our future.
    END

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