Socialization Flashcards
the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture
socialization
a person’s fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking and feeling
personality
What 2 basic human opposing forces did Freud identify
Eros (love) and Thanatos (death)
What are the three parts of Freud’s personality model
1: Id
2: Ego
3: Superego
Id involves
basic drives
Ego involves
works to achieve balance
Superego involves
culture within
Jean Piaget’s 4 stages of cognitive development
- Sensorimotor stage
- Preoperational stage
- Concrete operational stage
- Formal operational stage
Sensorimotor stage
experience world through senses
preoperational stage
use of lamnguage and other symbols
concrete operational stage
perception of causal connections in surroundings
formal operational stage
abstract, critical thinking
What are Lawrence Kohlberg’s 3 stages of Moral Development
- Preconventional
- Conventional
- Postconventional
Preconventional stage
Children experience pain or pleasure
Conventional
Young people do what pleases parents/conforms to social norms
Postconventional
ability to consider abstract ethical principles.
Carol Gilligan’s comparison of Boys and Girls moral development
- Boys develop justice perspective
- Girls develop care and responsibility perspective
justice perspective
formal rules define right and wrong
care and responsibility perspective
personal relationships define reasoning
George Herbert Mead’s 4 components of the self
- Not there at birth
- develops from social experience
- social experience = exchange of symbols
- understanding intention requires imagining the situation from the other’s point of view.
the part of a personality composed of self-awareness and self-image
The Self
Charles Horton Cooley’s looking glass self
- Others represent a mirror in which we see ourselves
- What we think of ourselves depends on what we think others think of us.
Mead’s I and me
I: subjective element of self
Me: objective element of self
How do Mead’s I and Me appear in social interaction?
- we initiate action (I-phase)
- We continue based on how other’s respond (me-phase)
Who is a significant other
People (ex, parents) who have special importance for socialization
Generalized other
Widespread cultural norms and values we use as a reference in evaluating others
what are the three roles the self can take
- no one
- one
- many
Erik H. Erikson’s 8 Stages of development
1: Infancy
2: Toddlerhood (3)
3: Preschool (4-5)
4: Preadolescence (6-13)
5: adolescence (teen years)
6: Young adulthood
7: Middle adulthood
8: Old age
Challenge of an infant
establish trust in a safe world
Challenge of a toddler
learn skills to cope with the world in confidence
Challenges of a preschooler
learn to engage their surroundings and experience guilt at failing to meet others’ expectations
Challenges of a preadolescent
enter school, make friends, feel proud of accomplishments or like they don’t measure up.
Challenges of adolescent
identify with others, want to be unique, experience confusion of identity
Challenges of young adulthood
form/maintain intimate relationships while having a separate identity