_socialization.student notes.ppt
- 2. Standards • SSSocSC1: Students will explain the process of socialization. a) Identify and describes the roles and responsibilities of an individual in society. b) Analyze the individual development theories of Cooley and Mead. c) Identify and evaluate the stages of socialization; include childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and death/dying. d) Evaluate the factors that socialize the individual; include family, peers, education, media, and religion. e) Analyze how individuals are socialized by gender and race/ethnicity.
- 3. Essential Question • How does socialization occur?
- 4. Developing a Social Self • Self: a person’s conscious recognition that he or she is a distinct individual who is part of a larger society – Emerges through social experience – Socialization- cultural process of learning to participate in group “I” vs. “Me” • “I” is myself as I am – Unsocialized self • Spontaneous • Creative • Initiator of social action – Young Children • “I” dominated – “I’m hungry” – “I want a toy” • “Me” is myself as others see me – Socialized self – Based on our perception of how others will respond to our actions • Reactive – Develops later in life • I: “I want to take a piece of my friend’s candy without permission.” • Me: “How will Sally respond to Chapter 4: Socialization
- 5. Harlow’s Monkeys • What happens to monkeys who are isolated? – Distressed – Apathetic – Withdrawn – Hostile – Abusive parents • https://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=BJ _Krs8f6Iw
- 6. Internet/Technology • How does the internet help socialization? – More access to new ideas, people from around the globe, and information. • How does the internet prevent socialization? – We become trapped in our own little world and miss out of making real- life connections
- 7. Structural-functionalist view on socialization • Approach: Socialization… • Serves as the important function of: – reinforcing the social structure – maintaining society – transmitting culture from one generation to the next. clip • Motivation and ability to perform role expectations are acquired through socialization • Prerequisites for survival of the social systems • Example: • Can be compared to vaccination: • Members of society are injected with the attitudes, values, beliefs, and norms that will allow them to assume and successfully fulfill the roles of full and productive citizens
- 8. Conflict theorist view on socialization • Approach: Socialization… • One of the most powerful and effective tools used by those in power to: – maintain the status quo – legitimize existing social inequalities • Prepares people for class related roles they will fill throughout their lives • Example: • Upper class children: – Socialized for positions of authority and leadership roles – How to interact among members of same class and lower classes • Lower class children: – Socialized for positions to serve those higher on the social ladder • Trained to show respect for those above them in social class
- 9. Symbolic Interactionist view on socialization • Approach: Socialization • Stress importance of: – Primary groups – Interpretation of meaningful symbols – Development of a social identity – Viewing self as an object • **Symbolic interaction’s major contribution to sociology is socialization. • Example: • Looking Glass Self-Cooley – Our self-image is largely a result of how we interpret others’ impressions of us • Symbols : – Verbal – Non-verbal
- 10. The Looking-Glass Self • A self concept (image of yourself as having an identity separate from other people) based on our ideas of others’ judgments of us – 1. We imagine how we appear to others (as if they were a mirror) – 2. We imagine the reaction of others to our imagined appearance – 3. We evaluate ourselves according to how we imagine others have judged • NOT A CONSCIOUS PROCESS • EX. 1. You approach a group of classmates and are immediately aware that you are giving off an impression – 2. You “read” both their verbal and nonverbal reactions to assess whether they see you as you see yourself (friendly, witty, charming) – 3. If their feedback is positive, you feel friendly, witty, and charming. If their feedback is
- 11. Social Perception • Process by which we form impressions of others and ourselves – We give off and receive cues about the kinds of persons we are • Depend on: – Physical appearance – Clothing – Gestures – Tone of voice – Facial expressions – Posture • Use these cues to determine: – Occupational identity – Social class – Group membership • Stereotypes are used when we cannot know everything about someone we meet…