SOCI 1 Lecture 6: Week 4
Aspects of Socialization
1. (social) context - stage setting
a. Historical
b. Cultural (includes language)
c. Structural
2. Context and process
a. What is being learned/how
3. results/outcomes
a. What happens as a result can influence future socialization
Types of socialization
● Primary
● Secondary
● Anticipatory
● Resocialization
Types of social agents
● Generalized
○ View self through larger (general) society
○ Expectations of behavior based on larger values and attitudes
● Significant
○ Those people whose opinion and influence are particularly important in an
individual's self assessment
■ Internalize their attitudes, ideas and values
■ Organize our behavior in response to these
● Not always to please or conform
The self
● Evolves through socialization
● Can't be examined scientifically
● Any idea about our own existence
● Dynamic, always shifting
● Connects us to society
○ No others = no self
● Object and subject
The I
● Myself as I am
● Self as subject
● Active source of behavior
● The response
● Can be impulsive
The Me
● Myself as i think others see me
● Self as the object (acted upon)
● Others perceptions and
expectations internalized
● Observes directs the I
● Internalizes the responses of
others to the I
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