-Process through which we learn/are trained to be members of society

-Taking part in new social situations

-To participate in social grouping

-"Being social"

-Initial socialization that a child receives

-Becoming a member of society

-Acquired through socialization

-Can be affected by race, class, religion, and groups in society

-Family

-School

-Peer Groups

-Mass Media

-Most basic social institution

-Sanctioned by state (and religion)

-Provides: Language, personality traits, religion, class

-Most important before school

-Remains central trhoughout entire life

Provides: Cognitive skills, Indoctrination of values

-Exposure to people of different social backgrounds

-Learn importance of race and gender

-Provide: lifestyle

-Expand throughout childhood

-Free of direct supervision of adults

-Definition of self independent of family

-Most important during adolescence

-Discarding behavioral practices and adopting new ones as a part of transition in life

-Ex: Becoming a parent --> learning new responsibilities

-Where persons are confined for a long period of time and cut off from the rest of society

-Involves a fundamental break with the past to allow for the rebuilding of personality

-Ex: mental hospitals, military, prisons

-Id: unconscious

-Ego: mediator

-Super Ego: rational

Looking-Glass Self

-Imagining how we appear to others

-Wondering if others see us as we see ourselves

-Developing a conecption of ourselves base on the judgment of others

Role-distance

-The gap between who we are and who we portray ourselves to be