SOC102H1 Chapter Notes -Peer Group, Total Institution
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Part one socialization: socialization: is the social process whereby people undergo development by interacting with the people around them. A. socialization is the vital link between individuals and society. B. socialization thus makes social interaction, social organization, and social order possible. Example: learning to be a student, spouse or parent, learning a job, making new friends: gender socialization: is the process by which individuals learn to become feminine and masculine according to expectations current in their society. A culture defines male and female roles as sharply different, parents raise boys and girls so that they will be sharply different. Parents are usually the first source of children"s gender learning, and indications are that parents hold and communicate different expectations for males and females. masculine and feminine characteristics. D. stereotyping contributes to the streaming of males and females into traditional. C. the mass media, present idealized images and stereotypes of appropriate.