SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hidden Curriculum, George Herbert Mead
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Socialization the lifelong social process by which we learn our culture, develop our personalities and become functioning members of society. Personality a person"s relatively stable pattern of behaviours and feelings. Nature (biology) actions and feelings stem from biological roots. Nurture (socialization) we are a product of our socialization. Impact on nonhuman primates: harlow"s experiments, 6 months of complete isolation was enough to permanently disturb development. The self one"s identity comprising of a set of learned values and attitudes that develop through social interactions and define one"s self image. George herbert mead: self develops only with social experience, social experience is the exchange of symbols. Use of symbols allows humans to conceive of themselves in relation to others: understanding intention requires imagining the situation from the other"s point of view. Du bois: double consciousness: double consciousness a sense of self that is in part defined by others, du bois applied this term to african americans specifically.