SOCY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman, Impression Management
4 Oct 2018
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Socialization- the lifelong process of learning to become a member of the social world. Interaction- the basic processes of socialization through which a child is shaped into a human being, learns its culture, and becomes a member of a society. Social self - the changing perceptions we have who we are as a result of ongoing socialization, from birth to death. The structural -functionalist perspective- df socialization agents support 1 another social harmony social order. The conflict perspective - dif socializing agents have conflicting goals social conflict social changes. Mostly we have learned little power to decide or control our futures. Self- ther perspective we have of who we are which developed from our prescriptions of the way others respond to us in our myriad interactions. The development of the self begins at birth and through infancy. Biology and sociology both contribute to the dev of the self.
