Midterm Flashcards
Habitus
Habitus is the cognitive / mental system of structures which are embedded within an individual (and/or a collective consciousness) which are
the internal representations of external structures.
Socialization
Socialization is a process by which individuals learn how to become members of society. It is the process by which individuals learn and understand the rules, norms, values, beliefs, language, in order to be functioning members of society
Deterministic view
No agency, one way process, social structures
Constructivist view
Agency, reciprocal process, individual
Bauman definition of socialization
socialisation is the internalization of social pressure that transform us into a being capable of living in society
Elias (5+critique)
- Sex becomes shameful
- Family as primary generational civilizing process
- discourse on sex related to manners
- no control over behaviour
- External and internal control
Critique: low possibility for social mobility, ethnocentric
Foucault (6) and critique
- Sex is never shameful
- Society as primary generational civilizing process
- discourse on sex related to rationality from morality
- behaviour regulated not changed
- repressive hypothesis
- Sex becomes public issue
Critique: focus on discourse, sex as property of the individual
Symbolic interactionism (5)
Mead The self Role taking 2 stages of development : play/game I Me GO
Role taking
capacity to adjust our behaviour in response to specific social situations
The self
Ability to take oneself as a subject and an object
Play stage
learn how social world is organized around roles
Game stage
Assumes his role and role of others
Multiple selves into one –> full unified self
Generalized other
Attitudes of the entire community
I
Subject
spontaneaous/ biological
individual response to other’s attitudes
Me
Object
Social
Individual adoption of the G-O
Dramaturgical Approach
Goffman
The self emerges from face to face interactions
interactions as performance
Impression management
Impression management techniques
Defensive
Protective
Personal front (+characteristics)
used to manage other’s impression of us
Manners (attitudes), Appearance (items and symbols), setting
Face Work
Actions to make consistent with face, counteract threats
Avoidance/corrective
Face
positive social value gained from interaction
The self according to goffman
collection of different selves
Phenomenological Approach
Berger and Luckman