Socialization Flashcards

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socialization - definition

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socialization:

  • process by which someone acquires self identity and is trained necessary social skills for survival and social expectations

personality:

  • fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling that is formed by internalizing surroundings
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agents of socialization

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family

  • language acquisition, rules, relationships, morals, behaviour, gender socialization

school

  • grammar, rules, social setting, hidden curriculum (scheduling, how to behave in organizations)

peers/social groups

  • forming relationships, discussing interests adults may not want to share (music, clothing, drugs, sex)

mass media

  • social media, tv, enforcing stereotypes, how we act. starting/stopping trends

government

  • laws, sense of security, sanction of punishment (what we can and can’t do)

religion/non-religion

  • values, love for others

ethnic background

  • beliefs, values, customs
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theories of socialization

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  • urie brofenbrenner’s ecological systems theory
  • jean piaget’s theory of cognitive development
  • erik erikson’s psychosocial stages of development
  • lawrence kohlberg’s theory of moral development
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urie brofenbrenner’s ecological systems theory

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microsystem

  • direct contact with the individual and their
  • environment (parents, sibblings, teachers, school peers)

mesosystem

  • The interactions between the child microsystems (parents interact with teachers, influences school experience)

ecosystem

  • other students outside the person that influences them and one of their microsystems (neighbourhood, media, parents work)

macrosystem

  • cultural influences (socioeconomic status, poverty, ethnicity)
  • differs from the specific environment, but the already established society and culture which the person is developing in

chronosystem

  • environmental changes that occur over the lifetime (major life transitions, historical events)
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Jean piaget’s cognitive development

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  • focused on thinking and reasoning patterns in children
  • argued that children develop in 4 stages:
  1. sensorimotor stage
  2. pre-operational stage
  3. concrete operational stage
  4. formal operational stage
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piaget’s key terms

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schemas/schema

  • way of organizing and making snese of experiencesex. a dog can look different, but still considered a dog

assimilation

  • use current schemas to interpret the external worldex. a child sees a new type of dog theyve never seen before but recognizes it as a dog

accommodation

  • create new schemas or adjust old ones to fit new experiences/observationsex. a child sees a cat for first time and thinks its a dog. once corrected, a new category of ‘cat’ is created
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piaget’s stages - 1

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sensoriomotor stage
- the child experiences the world only through their sense and motor actions
- key development: object permanence
- 0-2 y/o

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piaget’s stages - 2

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pre-operational stage
- child can use symbols to both think & communicate, can take someone else’s POV, classify objects, and use simple logic
- lacks abstract thinking (conversation)
- key development: egocentrism
- 2-6 y/o

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piaget’s stages - 3

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concrete operational stage
- reasoning becomes more logic (not abstract), and they learn to think in categories and hierarchies
- operation: figuring things out in your head (mental math, conversation)
- 7-11 y/o

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piaget’s stages - 4

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formal operational stage
- individuals think abstractly and critically
- abstract rather than concrete solutions (hypotheticals, moral reasoning)
- 12+ y/o

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Erik erikson’s psychosocial stages of development

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  • 1902-1989
  • trained by anna Freud
  • at each stage a person in confronted with a ‘crisis’ that must be resolved
  • each crisis is represented by a healthy vs unhealthy resolution that can be represented as a polar opposite on a line:

trust—————————mistrust

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erikson’s stage - 1

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infancy
- 0-18 months
- crisis: trust vs mistrust (reliance on caregiver)
favourable outcome: the world is a safe place, can trust others in the future
unfavourable outcome: anxiety, mistrust, insecurity

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erikson’s stage - 2

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toddlerhood
- 18m-3 y/o
C: autonomy vs doubt/shame (discovering independence)
F: self centered, self confidence
UF: doubt in abilities

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erikson’s stage - 3

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pre-school
- 4-5 y/o
C: initiative vs guilt (trying out new things)
F: initiating activities and try new things
UF: if told what we do is wrong, we can develop guilt

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erikson’s stage - 4

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pre-adolescent
- 6-13 y/o
C: industry vs inferiority (discovering owns interests & differences)
F: proud of own accoplishments
UF: fear of being inferior to others

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erikson’s stage - 5

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adolescence
- 13-21 y/o
C: identity vs confusion (learning social rules)
F: experience confusion but results with a sense of self
UF: role confusion but feel lost

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erikson’s stage - 6

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young adulthood
- 21-39 y/o
C: intimacy vs isolation (understanding who we are)
F: falling in love & bonding with others
UF: feeling of isolation and loneliness

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erikson’s stage - 7

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middle adulthood
- 40-65 y/o
C: generativity vs stagnation (leading the next generation)
F: contributing to the lives of others
UF: stagnation or feeling pessimistic

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erikson’s stage - 8

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old age
- 65+
C: integrity vs despair (reflecting on our lives)
F: sense of fulfillment and acceptance of death
UF: dissatisfaction with life an fear of death

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Lawrence kohlberg’s theory of moral development

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lvl 1: preconventional
- moral reasoning = personal concern/interest

lvl 2: conventional
- moral reasoning = actions vs expectations or pleasing others

lvl 3: post-conventional
- moral reasoning = personal ethics or the right thing to do

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kohlberg’s stage - 1 (pre con)

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obedience and punish avoidance orientation

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kohlberg’s stage - 2 (pre con)

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self interest and exchange

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kohlberg’s stage - 3 (con)

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interpersonal relationships

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kohlberg’s stage - 4 (con)

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maintaining social order and law

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kohlberg’s stage - 5 (post con)

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social contract and individual rights

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kohlberg’s stage - 6 (post con)

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universal principles

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Carol Gilligan’s gender and moral development

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  • boys and girls experience different forms of socialization, and use different standard of mortality

boys mortality: justice
girls mortality: care and responsibility

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Gilligan’s stage - 1

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pre conventional morality
- individual survival
transition: from selfishness to care and responsibility for others

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Gilligan’s stage - 2

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conventional morality
- to be good is self sacrifice (reliance on others and social acceptance)
transition: from goodness to truth

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Gilligan’s stage - 3

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post conventional morality
- morality and non violence (understanding choice between self and others, do not harm others or self)

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social isolation

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feral/wild children
- children raised in complete isolation with little to no human interaction or socialization

greatest consequence:
1: language
2: understand and forming relationships

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who decides the rules?

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1: reality and knowledge are socially constructed
2: knowledge is never value neutral

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social construction

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  • knowledge and reality are reflective of the values and interest of those who produce it
  • all knowledge and ways of knowing are connected to a social context
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breaking the rules

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Thomas theorum: what we define as real is real in its consciences
- rewards and punishments for following or breaking the rules

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why does socialization matter?

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cultural sunglasses
frames: big picture
- the norms that everyone is taught at birth
Lenses: micro perspective
- individual perspective of the world (own experiences)