SOC 1105 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gender Role, Moral Development, Impression Formation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1105
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Socialization refers to the ways in which individuals attempt to align their own thoughts, feelings, and behaviour to fit into society or groups the process in which individuals incorporate society into their senses of self. To interact with others, we must learn the social rules. The norms of a society/culture which tell us those behaviours are acceptable and which are unacceptable. Children deprived of human contact have limited intellectual capacities, have no or limited experience with love or human interaction, and do not grasp language. Sociologists believe that social reality is constructed by people every time they interact with others. Outcomes of socialization include: gender role, moral development, orientation towards social class. In adulthood, socialization is concerned with equipping the individual to function effectively in adult roles: Role discontinuity: when values and identities associated with a new role contradict those of earlier roles, on entering a discontinuous role, we must revise our expectations and aspirations.