Refers to a lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture.
Socialization
Although it is a general process, ______ takes place in specific contexts.
socialization
It is culturally specific:
people in different cultures are socialized differently to hold different beliefs and values and to behave
in different ways.
socialization
It is culturally specific:
people in different cultures are socialized differently to hold different beliefs and values and to behave
in different ways.
socialization
Is the process by which people learn the requirements of their surrounding culture and acquire the
values and behaviors appropriate or necessary in that culture.
Enculturation
In this process, the influences that limit,
direct, or shape the individual (whether deliberately or not) include parents, other adults and peers.
Enculturation
Three goals of socialization
- Socialization teaches impulse control and helps individuals develop a conscience.
- Socialization teaches individuals how to prepare for and perform certain roles
- Socialization cultivates shared sources of meaning and value.
Sociologist ______ outlined his interpretation of the three primary goals of socialization:
Jeffrey J. Arnett outlined
This goal is accomplished naturally.
- Socialization teaches impulse control and helps individuals develop a conscience.
As people grow up within particular society, they pick up the
expectations of those around them internalize these expectations to moderate their impulses and
develop a conscience.
- Socialization teaches impulse control and helps individuals develop a conscience.
Occupational roles, Gender roles, and the roles of the institution such as marriage and parenthood.
- Socialization teaches individuals how to prepare for and perform certain roles
Through socialization, people learn to identify what is important and valued within a particular culture.
- Socialization cultivates shared sources of meaning and value.
The ____ is a sociological concept.
‘self’
According to ______ , it develops through social interactions—a
set of situations (i.e. imitation, play, game, generalized others) where individuals learn to assume roles and meet the increasing level of complexity of each situations.
George Herbert Mead
The ‘self’ is a sociological concept. According to George Herbert Mead, it develops through social interactions—a
set of situations (i.e. imitation, play, game, generalized others) where individuals learn to assume roles and meet the increasing level of complexity of each situations.
Mead and the development of the social mind(self)
According to ____ , the absence of social interactions, a person may develop as a biological entity, but he or she will be without the sociality that makes individuals full-pledged members of their society.
Mead
Mead proposed a four-staged process of the development of the self.
- Imitation
- Play
- Game
- Generalized other
The child starts with mimicking behaviors and actions of significant others around him or her.
- Imitation
This is the first stage, though some literature did not consider this stage as a part of the process of the
formation of the self.
- Imitation
The child takes different roles he or she observes in “adult” society, and the ___ them out to gain
understanding of the different social roles, as a result of such ___In the game stage, the child must take role of everyone else involved in the game., the child learns to become both
subject and object and begins to become able to build a self.
- Play
However it is a limited self, because the
child can only take the role of a distinct and separate others.
- Play
the child must take role of everyone else involved in the ______.
game
In this stage, organization begins and definite personalities start to emerge.
game
Children begin to function in organized groups and most importantly, to determine what they will do
within a specific group.
- Generalized other
