SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Third Doctor, Hidden Curriculum, Social Reproduction
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Self consists of your ideas and attitudes about who you are. Freud: proposed the first social-scientific interpretation of the process by which the self emerges. Infants demand immediate gratification but begin to form a self-image when their demands are denied: example: parents decide not to feed and comfort them every time they wake up in the middle of the night. Infants soon learn to eat more before going to bed, sleep for longer periods, and go back to sleep when they wake up. Chapter 4: founder of the symbolic interactionist tradition and an early contributor to the sociological study of socialization. Mead: developed the idea of the looking-glass self, noted that a subjective and impulsive aspect of the self is present from birth. Life course the distinct phases of life through which people pass. These stages vary from one society and historical period to another.
