SYG-1000 Lecture 4: Chapter 4 - Socialization
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What: continuous, lifelong process of acquiring self identity, skills, talents, and personal development through interaction with others. Why: do not have innate fixed action patterns. (sociobiology vs. social) Where: begins with family, then school, peers, work site, organizations, church. When: greatest amount in early year, but through out entire life. How important: hardly a single behavior that is not influenced socially. (impact of isolation study: harlow primates. Psychoanalytical: freud, victorian era - time of extreme sexual repression and male dominance. Demonstrated importance of early childhood experiences, of culture and social forces. Id personality component includes basic biological drives and needs for gratification. of id. Ego reality orient that restricts innate, pleasure seeking drives. Psychosocial: erikson, dichotomy of eight stages of development w/ potential crisis: infant, birth - one. Trust vs. mistrust based on nurturing: one - three. Exploring environment to become autonomous: three five. Learn to manipulate objects, how they work: twelve eighteen.