SOCL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pilot Experiment, Annette Lareau, George Herbert Mead
6 Jun 2018
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Linking Culture and Socialization
● Culture is learned behavior
○ Patterns “of doing” become patterns “for doing”
● Most important lessons seldom explicitly taught
● Things that appear “natural” are not
Socialization
● Why do people conform even in absence of explicit rules?
● One answer
○ Exist within societies but societies also within us
Example: Gender Socialization
● Some words with gender stereotypes
Gender Stereotypes
● Widely held but oversimplified
Gender Socialization and the Media
● How do the contestants on the bachelor and the bachelorette exenoku=ify gender
stereotyped?
● Do they also display racial or ethnic stereotypes?
● What are the consequences of breaching those stereotypes?
● What cultural scripts and rituals are the contestants participating in?
Psychoanalytic Theory
● Holds that we are driven by an instinct to see pleasure
○ Id - pleasure
○ Superego - conscience
○ Ego - conscious, mediator
● Viewed parents as the primary force in development
Symbolic Interactionism and Socialization
● Stresses the processes
Looking Glass Self
● Charles Horton Cooley
● Look at others
○ Imagine how we appear to others
○ Interpret reactions
○ Develop self concept based on this interpretation
● E.g. eating disorder
George Herbert Mead
● Self and the mind are social products
● I and Me
○ I: unique traits of each person (responds to social self)
○ Me: demands of others and awareness of those demands (social self)
● Three stages of development
○ Imitation stage (mimicking roles of grownups without fully understanding the
intentions)
○ Play stage (mimicking roles of significant others)
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Document Summary
Patterns of doing become patterns for doing . Exist within societies but societies also within us. Holds that we are driven by an instinct to see pleasure. Viewed parents as the primary force in development. Develop self concept based on this interpretation. Self and the mind are social products. I: unique traits of each person (responds to social self) Me: demands of others and awareness of those demands (social self) Imitation stage (mimicking roles of grownups without fully understanding the intentions) Play stage (mimicking roles of significant others) Game stage (understand that people have different roles, gradually begin to acquire skill in navigating among multiple roles) Parental values in the working class and professional middle class. Freedom from supervision, complexity of task, variety of work in the job. Some jobs fostered conformity (working class) or self direction (middle class) Relationship between self direction on job and of child. Compiled lists of parents and families and selected every third family.
