SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Influence Of Mass Media, Waking Hours, Harlequin Enterprises
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Harry and margret harlow (1960s) studied baby rhesus monkeys in various conditions of isolation to witness and study their reactions. Society"s main socialization institutions/ agents of socialization = families, schools, peer groups, mass media (in these settings, we learn how to control our impulses/think of ourselves as members of different groups/value certain ideals/perform various roles) Decreasing supervision/guidance by adult family members, increasing assumption of adult responsibilities by youth and declining participation in extracurricular activities = changing the nature of childhood + adolescence today. Biology sets the broad limits of human potential. Socialization determines the extent to which human potential is realized. Self: a set of ideas and attitudes about who you are as an independent being: freud (proposed the first social-scientific interpretation of the process by which the self emerges) Earlier thinkers believed that the self emerges naturally, the way a seed germinates: freud argued that only social interaction allows the self to emerge, cooley"s symbolic interactionism.
