Lecture 3: Socializing Flashcards
Cooley
Set symbolic interactionism in place, came with concept “looking-glass self”
self
set of ideas and attitudes about who you are as an independent person
1. form sense of self as results of continued social interaction
looking glass self
“I am not what I THINK I am”
“I am not what YOU THINK I am”
“I am what I THINK that YOU THINK I am”
flexible self
- development of a life-long process
- leaving and taking on roles
- Anticipatory socialization
globalization: flexible self
combined elements from variety of historical periods and geographic settings
growing ability: fashion new bodies from old
- body-building/aerobic exercise/weight reduction
- sex-affirming operations
- plastic surgery
Mead
One founder of symbolic interactionism, had same thoughts as Weber
Meads’ stages of development
- learn language through symbols
- pretend play
- complex games, taking roles of others
- generalization
Gilligan
how social positions affect socialization and social factors explain how girls and boys are raised differently
Goofman
Developed dramatical approach to sociology. Includes social life like a play, with defined roles and props, front and backstage
Goofman’s Dramatical Analysis
- people present themselves to look best
- constantly engaged in role-play
– public vs true selves
– not aware of role-playing - roleplay is gov. by norms
– impression management
Impression management
try and place ourselves in best light possible
Socialization
- process which people learn to function in their culture
- entering and disengaging from a series of roles
- becoming aware of themselves as they interact with others
socialization rule 1 facts
- ant environment, person acts on basis of existing personal characteristics and interests
- environment more or less cooperatively responds
- environmental responses shapes the individuals conduct
Agents of socialization
families, schools, peer groups, mass media, gender roles
gender roles
set behaviours associated with widely shared expectations regarding how you’re supposed to act depending on your gender
what are the individuals conduct?
- reinforcing existing patterns (cooperation)
- encouraging change (resistance)
Primary socialization
attributing basic skills needed to function in society in childhood
secondary socialization
socialization outside of family (school system, peers, mass media)
Self-fulfilling prophecy
expectation that helps to cause what it predicts
Peer groups
not friends, but of similar status and age
status
Recognized Social Position that a person can have
conflicts that exist between status
- values promoted by family
- values promoted by adolescent peer group
Feminist theory
conviction that gender equality is due to consequences of power and social conventions, rather than biological necessity. The patriarchy