Full Name Menglin Yuan Student NumberT00023230 Sociology 1110 – Winter 2014 Explanatory Paper – Assignment 4 Date Requested By: Saturday 12 April 2014
How is the self (the person) constructed: How does identity formation and personality development explain this process?
To put this question in a simple manner one has to answer the question of “Who am I”. The famous author of the Fifth Agreement Don Miguel Ruiz states in his novel that all of us go through a process of domestication. He also mentions in his books that culture, society, individual wisdom, experiences, and understanding also play a vital role in the formation of self. The process of self makes us realize how we define ourselves because it is important part of our everyday life and our interactions. The way sociologist thinks about the role, self, statues, and identity is a good way at looking at the subject paper. In this paper I will elaborate the process of identity formation and personality development.

First I would like to define some terms that play a vital role in the formation of such factors. Status is related to the social position that a person holds in a society or to put it another way all of the positions like social worker, human resources, hockey player, sex trader etc. are part of the status1. Roles are related to the responsibilities, behaviors, rights, that can be or should be associated with the social position that we as people assume in the society. A good example of this is the employee status, their role includes: performing different tasks, going to work, communication, team playing etc. To put in a simple way a status is something that is occupied by us while the role is something that is being played by us. A status is something that describes us while the role is something that we do. A status set is the group or status that is held by