SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Total Institution, George Herbert Mead

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Kai Lin

Document Summary

Socialization: the process of individuals internalizing the values, beliefs, and norms of a certain society and learning to function within it. Family, school, military, job, peers, the media. We are just a biological product of science. We are a soul even after we die; preservation of integrity. Self: an individual"s identity and how they perceive themselves. The mirror stage (preparatory stage): an unrefined sense of self characterized by imitation, birth - age 3. The play stage: the significant other (i. e. parents), age 3-5. Children recognize rules and can assume one continuous role. Generalized other: an internalized sense of the expectations of others, regardless of interaction. I/me significant other reference group generalized other. I: one"s sense of action, agency, or power. Me: the self as perceived as an object by the i ; as one imagines how others perceive them. The self image that is derived from imagining what other people think of you.