SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Symbolic Interactionism, Toilet Training
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"the ways in which individuals learn and re-create skills, knowledge, values, motives and roles appropriate to their positions in a group or society" (delamer et al) The process by which we are "taught" society"s values, norms, and values. Whether the person is learning through nurture or nature or through the perspectives. Ex: toilet training; once a child is older, a child recognizes the need to go to the bathroom. Process of learning the shared meanings of those in the child"s respective group. Done through learning shared meanings within a family, school, peer group, etc. group, etc. Teach us what social norms & what is okay and not okay to do/say. We learn what to expect of others and what others can expect of us. People and groups that influence our self-concepts and our understanding of society as a whole. First introduction to a system of values, norms and roles.