Q4 UCSP Socialization and Social Groups Flashcards
Theory by Charles Cooley - “I am not who you think I am. I am not who I think I am. I am who I think you think I am.”
The looking Glass Self
People have internal conversations broken up into 3 parts according to Cooley:
- We try to figure out who we think we are
- We try to understand what other people think of us
- We change based on what we think society thinks of us.
Us as individuals aren’t just what we believe we are because
It’s a hybrid between what we believe we are and what society thinks of us
Summarize The Looking Glass Self Theory
- We perceive what others view us to be and who they think we actually are and we mesh that then with who we think we are and then we try to adapt and change and grow from it or and internalize it
We perceive what others view us to be and who they think we actually are and we mesh that then with who we think we are and then we try to adapt and change and grow from it or and internalize it and we do this through
Socialization
According to the Looking Glass Self Theory, who can influence you?
Not only people that you’re close with but also people who you’ve never met before.
Cooley and Mead agreed on what?
other people could play a significant role in how we view ourselves
According to _______ everyone a person interacts with could influence their identity
Cooley
According to _________, the socialization process was somewhat more restricted, only certain people could influence our perception of self and only during certain periods of life.
Mead
Similar to the Thery of I and Me
Egocentrism
George Herbert Mead proposed the theory of ___________ in which only our significant others can influence our perception of self
The I and the Me
3 Stages in the Theory of The I and the Me
- Preparatory Stage
- Play Stage
- Game Stage
children interact with others through imitation in this stage of the I and Me
Preparatory Stage
children become more aware of the importance of social relationships in this stage of the I and Me; Role Taking, not only mimicking but creating
Play Stage
children start to understand the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of what Mead referred to as the “generalized other” or society as a whole in this stage of the I and the Me
Game Stage
- Children start to realize that people not only perform in ways based what they believe but also on what society expects on them
- They also start to understand that someone can take multiple roles
- They start to be concerned about the reactions of others to what they do. But they don’t really care about the perceptions of everyone. They’re mainly focused on the perceptions of their significant others in their life. (Parents, teachers, close peers, family, relatives)
Game Stage
response to social self (thinks about what those things in social self means). Individual identity or personal responses to what society thinks.
I
social self (how generalized other sees us). Society’s view
ME
Balance of both I and ME
Actual self
abandon at birth; isolated from humans; raised by animals
- Feral child
- Discovered by group of hunters (1872) accompanied by wolves in Buladshahr, Uttar Pradesh
- Was orphaned; 6-10 years old
- Walked on all fours; only consumed raw meat; hated wearing clothes; found it difficult to bond with others except for one who was also raised by a wolf
- He adapted human habits with time (eating cooked food; smoking tobacco; but not speaking)
- Died of tuberculosis in 1895
Dani Sanichar
Author of the book: A journey through the Kingdom of Oude who recorded 6 cases of feral children in 1848-1859
William Henry Sleeman
Irish Geologist who recorded Dina’s case and authored “Jungle Life in India” in 1880
Valentine Ball
AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION
- Family
- Peer Groups
- School
- Mass Media
first and usually the most important and influential agent of socialization
Family
- Types of parenting
- AUTHORITARIAN - demand that their children conform to their rules without complaining
- PERMISSIVE - more open and flexible in their judgments and decisions
_______ gives meaning and support to the individual from childhood into adulthood.
family
You acquire most of your information about the world you live from _______
your family.
offer opportunities for children to test what they have learned at home.
Peers/ Peer Groups
Peer Groups are important because
they help people of similar age find a place in society.
Peer groups enable a person to produce a set of ______, _______, ________< and _________ that conform to their own.
- Through peer groups, adolescents adopt the viewpoints or the worldviews of others.
behaviors, attitudes, values, and beliefs
It is the children’s first experience of an institution that evaluates their behaviors.
School
The whole range of activities at school is governed by _______________, and children are evaluated on the basis of ___________________
formal rules and regulations ; how they perform or how they conform to these rules.
Learnings obtained from _______ can reinforce what children have learned at home, at school, or in the community.
mass media
T or F. Some ideas and values learned from mass media, however, can also come in conflict with those taught by parents, teachers, and other socializing agents.
T
forms of Mass Media
Television, Newspapers, magazines, radio, and social media - play an important role in socialization
– rules of behavior which define what is right and wrong; acceptable or not; can be understood only within context of one’s culture
Norms
Dos and Don’ts enforced by sanctions or rewards and punishments
Norms
standards for evaluating norms
Values
products of human interaction which form the bases of how people develop repetitive and stable pattern of social relationships that bring order and meaning in social life.
Norms and Values