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Who are you?

Who are you?. Groups & individuals (A lecture to prompt you to think) R. Fielding. Individuals. Generally, people are considered to be independently functioning beings - is this true? When people do function “independently”, are they really independent of others?.

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Who are you?

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  1. Who are you? Groups & individuals (A lecture to prompt you to think) R. Fielding.

  2. Individuals • Generally, people are considered to be independently functioning beings - is this true? • When people do function “independently”, are they really independent of others?

  3. Are individuals born or are they made? • What makes people different?

  4. Are people independent? • Babies born into a social environment immediately exposed to others. • Brain pre-wired to respond to social stimuli over other stimuli - temperamental differences

  5. Are people independent? • Early social behaviour detectable at 12 hours post birth in term babies. • Language structures environment and child; speech internalization (“thinking”) regulates behaviour as external speech once did.

  6. Are people independent? • Behaviour regulated by context and social context (internal and external) is semiotic in nature. • So, people respond to what things mean to them, not what they actually are.

  7. Are people independent? • Meanings acquired through social processes - interactions with others define self. • People therefore are social creations.

  8. Groups • Groups of people share common norms, values and expectations of behaviour. • Groups feature power relations (dominance heirarchies)

  9. Groups • Acquiescence with norms & values leads to inclusion, similarities of behaviour (in-group) • Rejection of norms / values leads to exclusion, (out-group)

  10. Groups • Main grouping is Family. • Extended • Extended nuclear • Nuclear • Clans represent extended extended families.

  11. Groups • Tribes groups of families. • Accumulation of genes, and accumulation of behaviours, values & norms (culture). • Emphasis of in-group / out-group differences - identity generation

  12. Summary • So, individuals are group products, and they in turn shape groups in mutual influence. • Language and symbols super-imposed on temperamental features,

  13. Summary • Experiential influences shape meanings and hence values / norms of group (mainly relating to others).

  14. Why is this important in health care? • Most disease in lifestyle / environmental in origin, reflecting individual & group norms / values / contextual influences on behaviour.

  15. Why is this important in health care? • Therefore interventions to reduce risk must consider these factors and try to influence them.

  16. So, who are you? • Write down 5 defining features of yourself that makes you unique. • Now write down what 5 pieces of information you would give to a new & unknown pen pal about yourself to inform them who you are.

  17. What do you have? • The information you have written down is almost certainly social in nature; gender, age, appearance, occupation, activities, preferences, ambitions, etc. Why? Think about this.

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