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SOC Chapter 4
Socialization
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
10/19/2009

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Nature
Definition
heredity
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Socialization
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a process in which we learn and internalize the attitudes, values, belief, and norms of our culture and develop a sense of self
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Nurture
Definition
environment
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Sociobiology
Definition
a field that integrates theories and research from biology and sociology in an effort to better understand human behaviors
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Personality
Definition
a dominant pattern of attitudes, feelings, and behaviors
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Self
Definition
a person’s conscious recognition that he or she is a distinct individual who is part of a larger society
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I
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in Mead’s schema the unsocialized self as subject
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Me
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in Mead’s schema, and socialized self as object
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Looking-Glass Self
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Cooley’s concept that individuals use others like mirrors and base their conceptions of themselves on what is reflected back to them during social interaction
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Situated Self
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the self that emerges in a particular situation
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Agents of Socialization
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those groups and institutions that both informally and formally take on the task of socialization: family, school, religion, peers, workplace, media
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Social Learning Theory
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the idea that much human behavior is learned from modeling others
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Life Course
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a process in which individuals move from one biological and social stage to another as they grow and develop
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Rites of Passage
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ceremonies that symbolically acknowledge transitions from one like stage to another
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Primary Socialization
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the learning of human characteristics and behaviors and the development of a concept of self
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Role Taking
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the ability to anticipate what others expect of us, and to act accordingly
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Significant Others
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specific people with whom we interact and whose response has meaning for us
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Generalized Others
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the dominate attitudes and expectations of most members of society
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Anticipatory Socialization
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learning designed to prepare an individual for the fulfillment of future statuses and roles, in stage 2 of Meads developmental stages
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Developmental Socialization
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learning better to fulfill the roles we already occupy
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Desocialization
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the “unlearning” of previous normative expectations and roles
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Resocialization
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learning a radically different set of norms, attitudes, values, beliefs, and behaviors.
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Total Institutions
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places where people carry out virtually all of their activities
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Degradation Ceremony
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a process in which an individual is stripped of his or her former self, publicly stigmatized, and assigned a new identity
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George Herbert Mead
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explained the development of self as social process

 

"I" and "Me"

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Charles Horton Cooley
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the "Looking-Glass Self"
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Meads 3 Developmental Stages
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1. imitative stage
2. play stage
3. game stage
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Erik Erikson and Levinsons focused on...
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Adulthood development like adult crisis early
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