Socialization:

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Chapter 3

• Socialization
• The Essential Process Between the Individual and
  Society

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Socialization a Two-Way (MICRO) Process

• See Quiz on Page 79
• The lifelong process of social interaction
  through which individuals acquire a self-identity
  and the physical, mental, and social skills
  needed for survival in society is called

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What Influences Us?

• Culture
• Subcultures Examples?
• Review Cases of Anna, Genie, and Harlows
  monkeys in text.
• 2 forces Nature Nurture

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Types of Child Maltreatment(formerly called
Child Abuse) addressed in text

• Physical Injury
• Sexual Abuse
• Neglect (review text for a wide variety of
  examples)
• Which of the above is most common??
• Are there other kinds??

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Socialization

• Is socialization a Micro or a Macro process?
  On an individual basis, we study it ________
  -scopically. Focus How is a person socialized?
• If we study patterns of socialization within a
  society OR across societies, socialization can be
  analyzed _______-scopically. Focus How are many
  people socialized?

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Perspectives of Socialization A
_________________ Framework

• Charles Horton Cooleys notion of the
• ______________________asserts that our
  perception of ourselves (our self-concept) is
  derived from how we think others perceive us.
• 3 phases
• 1). We imagine how we appear to others.
• 2). We imagine how others judge the appearance we
  think we present.
• 3). We develop feelings based on these imagined
  judgments, i.e., self-concept is enhanced OR
  diminished.See diagram in text, p. 88.

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Perspectives of Socialization

• II. George Herbert Mead Selves can only exist
  in definite relations to other selves. No
  hard-and-fast line can be drawn between our own
  selves and the selves of others (cited from page
  89 of text).
• 3 Stages of Self-Development
• 1). birth ? 3
  years. Children imitate those around them
  interactions lack meaning.

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G. H. Meads theory.

• Stages of Self-Development (continued)
• 2.) 3?5/6 years
• What do children learn at 3 years of age?
• Use of symbols allows children to pretend they
  are another person they learn to take the role
  of a SPECIFIC, significant other, and thereby
  begin to see themselves from anothers view.
  Children learn their social position or status in
  relation to others.

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G. H. Meads theory.

• Stages of Self-Development (continued)
• 3.) 6/7 years thru
  life!
• (early school years). Children
• Learn rules of various social settings Examples?
• Learn rules of larger society
• Learn to take roles of MANY others at one time
• Develop the _______________ the awareness of
  subcultural and cultural EXPECTATIONS.

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Agents of Socialization

• persons, groups, or institutions that
  socialize us.
• Examples??

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Patterns of Socialization through the Lifecourse
(MACRO)

• Childhood Comparing traditional versus modern
  postmodern societies, which type has a separate
  phase for childhood (where children are viewed
  as having qualitatively different needs and a
  unique conception of the world??)
• Adolescence Comparing traditional versus modern
  postmodern societies, in which type does
  adolescence last much longer?

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Patterns of Socialization through the Lifecourse
(MACRO)

• Adulthood begins sooner in traditional societies.
  WHY??
• Note If we look WITHIN modern and postmodern
  societies, there are social class differences.
• In the working social class lower social class,
  adulthood begins _________ compared to the middle
  social class upper social class.
• WHY??

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Resocialization

• The process of learning a new and different set
  of attitudes, values, beliefs, and norms.
• What are examples of voluntary resocialization?
• -- What are examples of involuntary
  resocialization??
• Social arrangements in which people are isolated
  from the rest of society for a set period of time
  and are strictly supervised are called total
  institutions. Examples??