AHSS*1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tabula Rasa, Freudian Slip, Reality Principle

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18 Jun 2018

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Sociology Week 4

Socialization: The Paradox of Individual and Society

Socialization

- A learning process that involves development or changes in an individuals sense of self as they

interact with others

- Self is both process and product

- Primary vs secondary socialization

- Roles or status and role playing (tabula rasa)

Freud

- Mind is largely unconscious (Freudian slip)

- Structural model of self is ego, superego and id

- Pleasure vs reality principle

- Defense mechanisms (repression, sublimation)

- Acts out of instinct not logic

- Criticisms: not empirical; cannot test, therefore invalid

Cooley

- Other people are the mirror in which we see ourselves

- We are what we think others think we are

- Media acts like a looking glass

Mead (I and Me)

- The self is not biological, does not exist at birth (behaviourism)

- Develops ONLY as a consequence of social interactions with certain others

- TRO (Taking the Role of the Other): significant vs generalized others

- Meads stages of socialization:

o(1) prep stage – imitation, role playing

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