SOCI 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pierre Bourdieu, Jean Piaget, Inductive Reasoning
29 Apr 2020
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Chapter 5 Socialization
Socialization is the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group. It is how we
learn culture and norms so that we learn how to behave in society.
Agents of Socialization – Religion, family, peers, work, mass media, school.
Parents are responsible for your Primary Socialization and provide you with what Sociologist
Pierre Bourdieu calls “Cultural Capital.”
Part of your Primary Socialization is gender socialization.
- Parents dress you up in boy or girl colors.
- Parents provide gender appropriate toys and activities.
- Parent behaviors provide a blueprint for masculinity or femininity.
Cultural Capital –
- Parents teach manners.
- Parents provide books and computers.
- Parents guide children to attend college.
Feral Children – Children who have grown up isolated from human contact at a very young age.
These children have been neglected which negatively impacts their cognitive abilities resulting in
irreversible effects.
Nurture – The relationships and caring we receive
Nature – Biological genetics.
Looking Glass self – Charles H. Cooley
People’s self understanding of who they are is shaped by how others view them.
Herbert Mead’s Development of the self
- Children develop their sense of “self” through role playing
- Preparatory/Imitation stage – children learn through imitation of “significant others.”
- Play stage – children play by taking on the roles of “generalized other.”
- Games stage - understand multiple roles and understand complex games
- When children reach this stage they are able to imagine how others see them and are able
to shape their sense of “self”.
Jean Piaget Cognitive Development
Document Summary
Socialization is the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group. It is how we learn culture and norms so that we learn how to behave in society. Agents of socialization religion, family, peers, work, mass media, school. Parents are responsible for your primary socialization and provide you with what sociologist. Part of your primary socialization is gender socialization. Parents dress you up in boy or girl colors. Parents provide gender appropriate toys and activities. Parent behaviors provide a blueprint for masculinity or femininity. Feral children children who have grown up isolated from human contact at a very young age. These children have been neglected which negatively impacts their cognitive abilities resulting in irreversible effects. Nurture the relationships and caring we receive. People"s self understanding of who they are is shaped by how others view them. Children develop their sense of self through role playing. Preparatory/imitation stage children learn through imitation of significant others.
