While many animals are conscious and some primates have rudimentary self-awareness, only human beings seem to possess the linguistic skills that make possible a fully reflexive self-awareness that allows them to act as the subjects of their actions. Through their cultural formation, they are able to develop a sense of self and forms of self identity that are integral to their embodied dispositions to act and to plan their actions. Socialised minds are, therefore, integral to the interplay of structure and action through which culture and nature are mediated. Sociology requires, as one of its strands, a social psychological point of view.