The Meaning of Socialization review

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• The Meaning of Socialization (review)
• Resocialization and Total Institutions
• Why look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  through the lens of socialization?
• The Nature-Nurture Debate
• Groups
• Social Interaction and the Development of Self

Chapter 4
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Socialization, Resocialization and Total
Institutions
Video Clip What does this case tell us about
socialization?
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• Why look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  through the lens of socialization?
• What key issues and facts seemed most important
  to you?
• What makes this conflict so important for the
  rest of the world?

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• The Nature-Nurture Debate
• is it still really a debate?
• what do documented cases of social isolation
  teach us?
• why is memory (individual and collective) so
  important?

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Aggregates and Groups Primary and secondary
groups Ingroups and outgroups
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• Suicide Bombers
• Using Durkheims theory of suicide to understand
  this behavior
• The question of terrorism

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Social Interaction and the Development and Self

• G.H. Mead Stages in the development of self
  the special significance of play and games
• C.H. Cooley The looking-glass self
• J. Piaget Stages in cognitive development