SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ascribed Status, Total Institution, Peer Pressure
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Parents socialize kids and kids socialize parents. Different social classes socialize their children different. Middle-class kids have formal activities while poor kids don"t. Middle-class kids have independence and self-direction while poor kids. Can alter a child"s potential, opportunities, and future are obedient to external authority. Ex: private prep schools link students into social networks to benefit from. Can reinforce or contradict messages taught at home. Sesame street was an educational programming for low-income children who didn"t have the same opportunities for day care and preschool as wealthier peers. The way in which you are socialized as an adult. Job responsibilities and roles contain specific behaviors and preparation. Resocialization one"s sense of social values, beliefs, and norms are reengineered, often deliberately though an intense social process that may be in a total institution. An institution that controls all the basics of day-to-day life. A strict schedule under the same single authority. Boarding schools, colleges, monasteries, the army, prisons.
