SYG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Feral Child, George Herbert Mead, Impression Management
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How we learn to be human = starts at birth; successful socialization : personality, importance. Self-concept (image of yourself as an entity separate from other people) Looking-glass self ( kids learn to judge themselves in terms of how they. And socialization imagine others will react to them ) Significant others: people whose opinion of us matter to us the most: george herbert mead. Role-taking (take on the view of another individual and then respond to yourself from that imagined viewpoint) a. imitation stage (< 3 yrs. old; copy behavior of significant other w/o comprehension) b. After these stages, you achieve generalized other: conception of the norms & values of your community/society = conscience. Total institutions (places in which residents are separated from the rest of society; usually cannot come & go freely); prison. Desocialization (abandon old way of life = give up old norms, values, attitudes,
