SOC 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Symbolic Interactionism, Class Discrimination, Critical Role

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 105
• Professor: Tonya Davidson

Document Summary

Theorizing socialization: theories on childhood socialization, learning/behaviourist frame of reference. Assumes that the same concepts and principles that apply to animals apply to humans. Freud"s psychoanalytic theory stresses the importance of childhood experiences, biological drives and unconscious processes, and cultural influences. Beneath the surface of each individual"s consciousness are impulsive, pleasure-seeking, and selfish energies that freud termed the id . Individuals also have egos and engage in cognitive, conscious thought processes that make each one of us a unique individual. Both the id and the ego are controlled by the individual"s gradual internalization of societal restraints (the superego ) Parents play a key role in impulse taming by transmitting cultural values and rules that guide the ego and repress the id. Socialization consists of a number of stages of development called the oral, anal and phallic stages, followed later by a period of latency and then a genital phase.