BUILD BRIGHT UNIVERSITY
BANTEAYMEANCHEY STUDY
CENTER
• Course on Cultural Study 2
• Section 1: Self as communicator
• Lectured by Mr. Sin Sothea
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• TEL: 012 99 60 81
• GMAIL: sinsothea99@gmail .com
• Master candidate
outlines
• Self-concept
• How do we form self-concept
• The ways to communicate yourself and
others.
• Analyzing communication about yourself
• Communication about ourselves and
others
• conclusion
objectives
• To explain what is self-concept and it composed
of.
• To explain the ways to think about yourself.
• To present the relationships of behavior and
communication.
• The factors that affect your communication
behavior.
• To explain four ways how to communicate your
perception about yourself and you perception
about others.
preview
1. What is culture?
2. What is communication?
3. What is the relationship between culture
and communication?
4. What make good communication?
5. Does your behavior affect your
communication?
6. Have you ever talked to yourselves?
What is self-concept?
• Two educators define self-concept in the
following way:
• It is composed of all the beliefs and
attitudes you have about yourself.
• They actually determine
• who you are!
• What you think you are!
• What you can become!
• Another author describes self concept as
the physical and social perceptions we
have of ourselves that we have gained
through our interaction with others and
that have been proven by our experience.
How we form self concept
• Our self concept is learned as we experience
the world through our senses and filter the
information through our perception process.
• For example, the boy…..
• So, our self-concept is formed through a
combination of information from others an d the
way we see ourselves after all information about
us has been filtered through our perception
process.
Forming scheme
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Elements of self concept
Past self
Present self
Self schemata Future self
SELF
CONCEPT
Information from ourselves
• It’s now time to explore your perceptions about
yourself: “Who you are”
How do you see yourself?
How do others see yourself?
How does this affect your communication?
Who have been the most important people in
your life?
What has been the most important event or
turning point in your life? why?
Information from ourselves
NEEDS
General Examples Organizational Examples
Self-
Challenging job
Achievement actualization
Status Esteem Job , Title
Friendship Belongingness Friends at work
Stability Security Pension plan
Food, water Physiology Base Salary
• Some of information we have about
ourselves comes from the ways we talk to
ourselves or our intrapersonal
communication.
• Everyone spends time to talk to
himself and some people do it more
than others.
• You’re talking to yourself when you’re
thinking.
Different types of self
• Every time we talk to ourselves we putting
meanings on things based on our past
experiences.
• When you talk to yourselves, you always talk to
different self:
Carefree self and a sensible self
Romantic self and a practical self
Argumentative self and a peaceful self
Outgoing self and a reserved self.
Different types of self
• The more I attempted to “be me” the more “me’s” I found there
were. I now see that “being me” means acknowledging all that I
feel at the moment, and then taking responsibility for my
actions by consciously choosing which level of my feelings I
am going to respond to.
( Hugh Prather)
• If a person is to be an effective communicator,
he or she must know the meanings that are
inside of himself or herself as well as the
meanings that other people have for things.
Different types of self
• Although a word is not a thing, it is easy to
us to label ourselves and to act according
to the label we put on ourselves.
• Eg: if we put the label like as: lazy, pretty,
athletic, studios, or shy, we act in that way.
• The person we see ourselves to be may
be the person we show to the world.
Different types of self
• The way we communicate to other people is through our behavior,
which supposedly reflects our values, beliefs, attitudes and feelings,
• but our behavior may not be an accurate reflection of these things.
• We have included values and beliefs under the term of attitudes
since they are all interrelated.
(Stay apart from the
behavior
group)
Feelings( sad) I’m too
unhappy to
be at the
party
Attitudes
Information from others
• An individual is one person, but there are sides
of us that become more or less important in
different situations.
• Very often other people have a great influence
on how we see ourselves and act.
• Usually we change our communication between
behavior in response to the situation in which we
find ourselves.
• Other people, places, or occasions may affect
the way we communicate.
Information from others
• The ability to adapt to change is critical to
our communication effectiveness.
• Communication behavior must be change
that we call playing the role.
Analyzing communication about
yourself
• In communication depends on the sharing
of meanings between a sender and a
receiver, you will have to tell your
receivers something about yourself. This
process is called self-disclosure.
• Revealing inner self is often difficult. Write
about nine points about yourself.
public Public/ private private
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Communication about ourselves
and others
• When analyzing relationships with other
people, you may want to identify how you
feel about yourself and how you feel about
them.
• Thomas Harry talks about ways to see
themselves and four relating to other
people:
I’m not ok, You’re ok
• A person decides he isn’t worth much but
other people are worthwhile.
• He communicates that he is not pleased
with himself and needs the support and
recognition of those whom he perceive to
be ok.
I’m not ok, You’re not ok
• A person is generally unhappy with himself
and other people.
• He may give up trying to build
relationships and just demand to be left
alone even though he is not even happy
with himself.
I’m ok, You’re not ok
• A person decides he is fine but other peole
are not and , therefore, he does not wish
to get involved with them.
• He may communicate superiority over
these other people and rejection of them.
I’m ok, You’re ok
• A person decides that he is worthwhile and
other people are also worthwhile.
• He accepts himself and other and
emphasizes their strength.
• He tries to build meaningful, supportive
relationships with other people
• He communicates that he likes himself
and he likes the other people.
In conclusion
• your self-concept is composed of all the beliefs
and attitudes you have about yourself based on
what you think you are and what others have
told you you are.
• You ask yourself about what you need or
intrapersonal communication.
• You communicate about yourself through your
behavior, and your behavior reflects you values,
beliefs, attitudes and feelings.
