UCSP... Flashcards
● transformed into a more knowledgeable and
cooperative member of the society
● a lifelong process that starts at birth and ends
at death.
● Can acquire a sense of who they are and
where they belong
ENCULTURATION/SOCIALIZATION
refers to individual differences and
characteristic patterns of thinking , feeling and
behaving.
Personality
- Is how someone sees themselves
- is what others mostly remember of him/her
Identity
- refers to the biological/ genetic
predispositions that impact one’s human
traits.
Nature
- Describes the influence of learning and other
“environmental” factors on these traits.
Nurture
- Proposed by Charles Horton Cooley
- states that a person’s sense of self is derived
from the perception of others as we perceive
ourselves on how other people think of us.
Looking Glass Self Theory
- Proposed by George Herbert Mead
- The development of social awareness is
traced to our early social interaction. We learn
more ways of drawing out desired behavior
from others.
Role-taking Theory
AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION
Family
School
Peers / peer group
Mass Media
Workplace
has a major impact on us. Each one lays down
our basic sense of self, forming our initial
motivations, values, and belief
Family
a primary agent of socialization. Schools were
able to contribute to self-development by
exposing us to people who are not our
relatives, thus exposing us to new attitudes,
values, and ways of looking at the world.
School
can ease the transition from adolescence to
adult responsibilities for it offers young people
an identity that supports some independence
Peers / peer group
in the form of television, has become the
primary source of information about the world,
thus enabling us to view a wide range of role
models and occupations.
Mass Media
allows us to learn to behave properly within an
occupation, at the same time, indicates that
one has passed out adolescence stage
Workplace
the act of exhibiting the same as the behavior
of most other people in a society, group, etc.
Conformity
the recognized violation of cultural norms.
Deviance
Forms of Deviance
- Innovation
- Ritualism
- Retreatism
- Rebellion