Socialization Flashcards
What is “self”
a person or thing referred to with respect to complete individualist
Socialization
lifelong process of learning what our society expects of us
Who said the self is an ongoing social process involving role taking?
George Herbert Mead
role taking
imagining how others see you in order to understant their expectations
mead: You can only have a self if you can take yourself as an
object
on a desert island would you have a self
you cannot role take if there is no other people and you would have no standard to measure yourself by so therefore no self
3 stages of self development
Prepatory stage, play stage, game stage
What is the prepatory stage
mimicry
what is the play stage
a child can only take the role of one other person
game stage
child can now take the role of multiple people at the same time
the generalized other
in the game stage, general expectations of the whole society
There are two aspects of the self:
I and Me
The me is
the socialized and conforming part of the self
the I is the
spontaneous, unpredictable, creative
Harry Harlow studied
Isolation Studies by experimenting with baby monkeys
Harlow discovered
comfort is more basic than food because monkey goes to useless cloth mother rather than wire
Who spoke of the looking glass self
Charles H. Cooley
What is the looking glass self
our self image develops through the cues we receive from others
What are the three principle elements of the looking glass self
The imagination of our appearance to the other person, the imagination of the other persons judgement of that appearance and an emotional response such as pride or shame
W.E.B Du Bois coined the term
Double Consciousness which is a divided sense of one’s self such as an african american and an american. He suggested the two cannot be merged into one
