SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: George Herbert Mead, Resocialization, Symbolic Interactionism
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Socialization: agents of socialization, primary socialization, secondary socialization, additional types of socialization. Definition: the process through which people are taught to be proficient members of a society . Often described as the process by which people learn culture (i. e. , norms, values, perspectives, knowledge, language, religion, etc. ) Sociologists generally break them down into to different categories: Basic social learning that occurs during the first few years of life. Acquisition of basic knowledge of society"s values, norms, perspectives, skills. Examples: language, eating practices, everyday norms, etc. Seem to be preprogrammed to pick up rules, norms: secondary socialization. Process of acquiring more complex and subtle knowledge that we need in order to interact and behave appropriately in varied social relations. Agents: friends/peers, education, religion, states, mass media, economic institutions, etc. General view among sociologists that secondary socializing agents are getting more powerful. Self-socialization: choosing our socializing influences, demonstrates some agency.
