Abstract
In sociology and social psychology, “self‐concept” refers to the thoughts, feelings, and evaluations of individuals about themselves. Researchers distinguish between multiple types (e.g., professional or physical) and “dimensions” (e.g., self‐identity and self‐esteem) of self‐concept, and a wide variety of “scales” are developed to measure those dimensions. The bulk of the studies in the literature focus on the correlation of self‐concept with various sociological variables. Sociologists have also been inquiring into several topics with broad theoretical significance, including the ways in which people's self‐concepts are related to others' conceptions about them; the mechanisms underlying the change and stability of self‐concepts; the historical changes in the content of self‐concepts; the practices that involve deliberate modifications of the self‐concept; and the possibilities that new information technologies open up for self‐concept formation.