Socialization

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Socialization
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Reflection

• What does it mean to be human?
• It is society that makes people Human???
• How would be human if they isolated from society
  at early age?
• What is the source of our humanness?
• Are we born with these human characteristics
• Or, do we develop them through our interactions
  with others?

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Socialization

• 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. It is the basis
  for identity or how one defines themselves.

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• Why is socialization lifelong?
• Lifelong Learning
• Change in Status new rules, roles,
  relationships

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Anticipatory Socialization

• Process by which knowledge and skills are learned
  for future roles.
• Rites of passage

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Theorist and Philosophers

• coined the term looking-glass self
• b. coined the term generalized other
• c. studied development of the ability to reason
• d. id, ego, and superego
• e. studied social class differences in child
  rearing

• 1. Cooley
• 2. Mead
• 3. Piaget
• 4. Freud
• 5. Kohn

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Concepts and Meanings

• 1. Looking-glass self
• 2. Significant other
• 3. Gender socialization
• 4. Peer group
• 5. Resocialization

• developed by Charles Cooley
• b. an individual who significantly
• affects a persons life
• c. learning to be male or female
• d. groups of individuals approximately the same
  age
• e. process of learning new norms

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Hypothesize

• If we are socialized by external forces
  (nurture), are there any aspects of our social
  selves that might be in-born (nature).
• Is our need for human affection a product of
  nature or nurture?
• What can the monkeys tell us?

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What does the looking glass tell us about
ourselves?
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Agents Of Socialization

• Guiding Question How do we know what the social
  expectations of society are and how do they
  affect us?

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In life one person can take on many roles.
Within these roles are expected behaviors. When
you came into school today, you took on the role
of a student. What expectations are involved
with being a student? If you are able to
identify expectations, how did you come to know
what those expected behaviors are?
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AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION

• FAMILY
• MEDIA
• PEERS
• RELIGION
• SPORTS
• SCHOOL

• HOW DO YOU THINK EACH AGENT HAS INFLUENCED YOUR
  OWN SOCIALIZATION OR UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL
  EXPECTATIONS?

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Respond the followings

• Is the socialization experience the same for
  everyone?
• What can make it different?

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GENDER ROLES

• What are women supposed to be like? How are they
  supposed to act, look, dress, etc? What types of
  jobs are they supposed to have?
• What are men supposed to be like? How are they
  supposed to act, look, dress, etc? What types of
  jobs are they supposed to have?

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Timeline of Life

• What are the major changes that take place at
  each stage?
• Infancy and Childhood
• Adolescence
• Adulthood
• Old Age
• Death and Dying

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Infancy and Childhood

• Sense of self
• Micro-level
• Families provide warmth, trust, security (Trust
  v. Mistrust Erik Erikson)
• Abuse low self-esteem, isolation, mistrust,
  powerlessness
• Macro-level
• Public Institutions policies and practices to
  promote positive childrearing

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Discussion

• What is the most difficult aspect of being a
  teenager?

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Adolescence

• Buffer between childhood and adulthood
• Formal Operational Stage (Piaget)
• Often characterized by emotional and social
  unrest
• Teens develop their own identity (conflict with
  adults) (Identity v. Role Confusion - Erikson)
• SES impact on this period (shortened or
  lengthened)

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Adulthood

• Freedom of Choice
• Young Adulthood
• Financial self-support (Job)
• Goals of creating meaningful relationships,
  seeking personal fulfillment (Intimacy v.
  Isolation)
• Workplace socialization
• Middle Adulthood
• Compare accomplishments with earlier expectations
• Reach goals or recognize limits

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Old Age

• Integrity v. Despair (Erikson)
• May experience social devaluation
• A person or group is considered to have less
  social value than other persons or groups

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Death and Dying

• Experience decreased physical ability, lower
  prestige, prospect of death
• Come to terms with ones own mortality

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Example What is Masculinity?

• How have the men in this video been socialized to
  be masculine? Were they born that way or did
  they learn to act the way they do?