SOC100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Disruptive Innovation, Acculturation, Family Values

• School: UTSG
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H1
• Professor: Professor Tepperman

Document Summary

Real-life sociology chapter 4: making infants into social beings through. Socialization: the life-long social learning a person undergoes to become a capable member of society, though social interaction with others, and in response to social pressures. We are all members of social groups and perform according to the norms, values and expectations of these groups. The processes underlying socialization help to ensure the transmission of social norms, values and beliefs from one generation to the next. They help us develop as unique human beings within the context of institutions of socialization. The study of socialization focuses on the institutions, mechanisms and principles that are responsible for transmitting social norms. Society does not fully determine how we act and who we become as people. We all make and remake society everyday; but society also makes us who we are and changes us slightly from one day to the next. Some aspects of socialization have remained unchanged over time.