Editing William James (section)

=== Material self ===
The material self consists of things that belong to a person or entities that a person belongs to. Thus, things like the body, family, clothes, money, and such make up the material self. For James, the core of the material self was the body.<ref name=psychclassics>{{cite web |title=Classics in the History of Psychology (archived copy) |url=http://psychclassics.asu.edu/James/Principles/prin10.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206021129/http://psychclassics.asu.edu/James/Principles/prin10.htm |access-date=December 3, 2013 |archive-date=December 6, 2013}}</ref>
Second to the body, James felt a person's clothes were important to the material self. He believed a person's clothes were one way they expressed who they felt they were; or clothes were a way to show status, thus contributing to forming and maintaining one's self-image.<ref name=psychclassics /> Money and family are critical parts of the material self. James felt that if one lost a family member, a part of who they are was lost also. Money figured in one's material self in a similar way. If a person had significant money then lost it, who they were as a person changed as well.<ref name=psychclassics />