SOCA01H3 Lecture : Lecture 4
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Many people that engage in crime, grow up in a criminal environment. Crime socialization is the transmission of culture, of social forces is learned. Socialization: acquiring culture: values, beliefs, norms, statuses, roles. Also becoming aware of yourself as a distinct and separate entity in the social world. Nurture: passing on the culture , interacting with nature. Socialization is all about nurture, culture, interacting with nature. Socialization begins at birth, some believe it begins before birth: playing music while the child is in the womb, no evidence of this. Most of these symbolic interactionism is american. Mead: he calls one part of the self , i => present from birth, barbarians => nature. The me : socialized part, social part of the self, we get that from interaction and communication: patterns of socialization. Sometimes culture defines how old people are supposed to behave. We need culture/ socialization to become human (a) human isolation (b) the development of self.
