SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Erving Goffman, Fire People, Total Institution
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Socialization: the lifelong processes in which we learn about our culture, develop our personalities, and become functioning members of society. New term, american strand of sociology: functionalism (us, mid-twentieth century, dominant during this time period) -gone the way of the do-do bird over the past 25 years. How we absorb the cultural norms of society (so we know how to behave or fit in) The lifelong process through which we learn the values, roles and expected patterns of behaviour appropriate to particular social groups in a society. How individuals learn to live together in a ordered way to produce a coherent society. Appropriate varies across: time, place, social group, society (how functionalists view this) Learn how to be apart of, learn how to work in society. Gender roles (universities were closed to women in the earliest twentieth century) Hugging and kissing (greece, france) (friendship vs family) 1) individuals learn to live together in an ordered way to produce "society"
