SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Crystallization, Pierre Bourdieu, Harold Garfinkel
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Socialization: roles, what is expected of a person, we need to gure out how to follow along all the expectations and rules of the various roles we play. Sociology + cognitive science = social psychology: relationship between you as an individual and society as a whole. Gender socialization: carol gilligan, boys and girls struggle with different things. Agents of socialization: habitus impacts behaviour, but at an unconscious rather than. Families -> most important agent of primary socialization, which is the process of mastering basic skills required to function in society during childhood or socialization outside the family after childhood: schools -> increasingly responsible for secondary socialization, What shapes social interaction: how social order is maintained is one of the most fundamental. They exert a constraining pressure on us - think of people who unintentionally break norms and are judged for doing so - individual norms are not universal, norms in a given society often change over time.
