SOCI 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Inequality, Mass Media, Hidden Curriculum
29 Jul 2015
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Genie, a girl who was locked in a cage for years, and she was socially deprived, and never fully recovered. Socialization teaches us language, and other forms of nonverbal communication via symbols and gestures. It also teaches us norms and values of culture, what is right and wrong. It teaches us structures, we are socialized students, It teaches us who we are, the self, i and me. We are all distinct and unique, even if we are twins. Consider the concept of gender, as it applies to a set of twins, one female and one male: from the day we are born we are socialized into gender roles. Cooley and the looking glass self : first phase, imagine how others see us, imagine how others evaluate us, define ourselves as a result of these impressions, 2 core components of the self, The i, the acting self, per formative. The me, the socialized self, thinking and evaluating.
