SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Total Institution, Herbert Blumer, Symbolic Interactionism
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If a lifelong process by which people learn their culture. Including their norms, values, and roles (role is behaviors expected of a person occupying a particular position in society) Unleashing our potential: becoming fully human beings. Social phycology: relationship between individuality and social context. The self: a sense of our own individual identity that allows us to understand who we are in relation to others and to differentiate ourselves from them. Formation of a sense of self begins in childhood and continues in adolescence. Crystallization of self-identity during adolescence is just one episode in life long process of socialization. Freud- only social interaction allows the self to emerge. Cooley- looking glass self (social phycology) we see ourselves a lot the way other people perceive you. Mead- i (individual impulses, self as a subject) and me (generalized other, self as object): i the free will, the active component.
