SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: George Herbert Mead, Social Inequality

• School: U of M
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 100
• Professor: Terence James Mc Ginn

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4 population & human ecology, and ch. Key point: socialization and paths of least resistance shape me above all else. Demography: statistical study of human populations, especially patterns of birth, death, and migration. Human ecology: the study of relationships existing among individuals/social systems/the physical environment, and the consequences of those relationships. (example: shift from fireplace to central heating. : people and place are crucial to the system. Culture + structure = system, but people and place contribute into that. Socialization: the larger society has a part in shaping my identity is described by different psychologists and sociologists in different ways: there are five different points to socialization that johnson makes: Poi(cid:374)t #(cid:1005): the self is (cid:862)relatio(cid:374)al(cid:863) our identity exists only in relationship to others. (p. 108) Poi(cid:374)t #(cid:1006): (cid:862)i(cid:863) (cid:272)a(cid:374) thi(cid:374)k a(cid:271)out (cid:862)(cid:373)e. (cid:863) as (cid:272)hildre(cid:374), we gai(cid:374) this (cid:272)apa(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) whe(cid:374) we discover how others thi(cid:374)k a(cid:271)out (cid:862)(cid:373)e. (cid:863) (cid:894)p. (cid:1005)(cid:1004)9(cid:895)