SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: George Herbert Mead, Virtual Community, Erving Goffman
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To be actualized, socialization must unleash this potential. Socialization is the process by which people learn their culture. They do so by (1) entering into and disengaging from a succession of roles and (2) becoming aware of themselves as they interact with others. A role is the behaviour expected of a person occupying a particular position in society. Spitz"s natural experiment thus amounts to quite compelling evidence for the importance of childhood socialization in making us fully human. Without childhood socialization, most of our human potential remains undeveloped. (comparing children in nursing homes to children in orphanages). The operation and relative influence of society"s main socializing institutions or agents of socialization : families, schools, peer groups, and the mass media. Social interaction soon enables infants to begin developing a self-image or sense of self a set of ideas and attitudes about who they are as independent beings.
