ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the teaching and learning of social psychology could be approached in a similar way to the teaching and learning of mathematics or a language. The concept of the self is toward the centre of the sphere of the discipline of social psychology, it is linked with all the other concepts in a very complex way. It is one of several threads that run through all the chapters, implicitly or explicitly. Some writers have emphasized the fact that in a very fundamental sense the self is a product of a person's interaction with others. It is the social environment which is seen as fundamental. The self is one of the most central concepts in social psychology because of George Herbert Mead's fundamental contribution. The self has an important reflexive quality: it is both subject and object. In interaction, a man learns to respond to himself as others respond to him.
