SOCA01H3 Chapter 4: Socialization
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Chapter 4: socialization: socialization: the process by which people learn their culture including norms, values, and roles and become more aware of themselves as they interact with others, role: behaviour expected of a person occupying a particular position in society, without childhood socialization, most human potentials remain undeveloped, agents of socialization: families, schools, peer groups, mass media, during childhood contours of the self are first formed, self: consists of your ideas and attitudes about who you are. Allows us to imagine how we appear to them: from the judgement of others, we develop self concept, mead, idea of looking glass self, i: the subjective and impulsive aspect of the self that is present from birth, me: objective component of the self that emerges as people communicate symbolically and learn to take the role of the other, four stages of development: role taking.
