SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Erving Goffman, Thomas Theorem, Crystallization
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Social isolation and socialization: to learn culture and become human is only a potential socialization unleashes this potential, socialization - the process by which people learn their culture. The orphans were deprived of social stimuli, they were more susceptible to infections and had a higher death rate, and were also developing slowly and sexually maturing slower than others their age. The crystallization of self identity: adolescence is a turbulent period for rapid self development, the crystallization of self identity during adolescence is just one part of the life long process of socialization. Mead about who we are depend largely on how we see ourselves evaluated by others: he observed that when we interact with others, they gesture and react to us. This allows us to imagine how we appear to them. I (the subjective and impulsive aspect of the self that is present from birth) creative process of attaching meaning to things.
