SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Influence Of Mass Media, Mind Control, Behaviorism
20 Nov 2017
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Peer pressure also has a positive function : community = urban vs. Interdependence: little uniformity, social integration that arises out of the need of individuals for one another"s services. In such a society there is a greater division of labour. Mead believed that our sense of self was primarily developed through our social activities. Mead theorized that there are three stages of self-development that we pass through during childhood: Preparatory stage (about age two or less): children copy, or imitate, the behaviours of others around them without sophisticated understanding of what they are imitating. Play stage (about age two through six): children start role-playing and taking on the role of significant people in their lives. Children only take on one role at a time. Included in this theory is the idea that things that happen to people during childhood can contribute to the way they later function as adults. one social status to another.
