SOC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: George Herbert Mead
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Sociolization: lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn culture: helps develop our personalities; an individual"s fairly consistent patterns of thinking, feeling and acting, impact of social isolation- harry and margaret harlow (monkey studies) Concluded that baby monkeys bene tted from contact; how do monkeys learn to be monkeys? . **the point you need physical and social contact; you need language for socialization** Ex: what is/isn"t important, appropriate, moral, beautiful, correct. Meaning of objects -> bible, poison, of cer"s badge. Members have interests, social positions, and ages in common. Anticipatory socialization: learning that helps a person achieve a desired position: ex: joining a frat, guring out how to be like them. Media: helps us to de ne sociopolitical reality: ex: in debate, out t says stuff about them before they speak. The social self - george herbert mead 1863-1931. *by taking the role of the other, we become self aware*
