SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Total Institution, George Herbert Mead, Thomas Theorem

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Nathan Innocente

Document Summary

Socialization: the process by which people learn their culture (they do this by entering into and disengaging from a succession of roles and becoming aware of themselves as they interact with others. Role: a set of behaviours expected a person occupying a particular position in society. Self: a set of ideas and attitudes about who one is as an independent being. Freud developed the rst interpretation of how the process of self emerges. Id: the pleasure seeking component of the self. Superego: the restraining component of the self. Ego: the mechanism that balances the id and superego. Looking glass self: a description about the way our feelings about who we are depend largely on how we see ourselves evaluated by others. I: the subjective and impulsive aspect of the self that is present from birth. Me: the objective component of the self that emerges as people communicate symbolically and learn to take the role of the other.