SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: George Herbert Mead, Gender Role, Virtual Community
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Socialization: process by which people learn their culture: entering and disengaging from succession of roles, become aware of themselves as they interact with others. Role: the behavior expected of a person occupying a particular position in the society. Ren spitz compared babies raised in an orphanage with babies who were being raise in a prison nursing home. Depriving the infants of social stimuli for most of the day apparently made them less demanding. Normal children begin to play with their own genitals by the end of first year: orphans begin in their fourth year. Without childhood socialization most of our human potential remains undeveloped. The formation of a sense of self continues in adolescence, a particularly turbulent period of rapid self-development. Crystallization of self-identity during adolescence is just one episode in a lifelong process of socialization. Agents of socialization families, peer groups and the mass media. Self: set of ideas and attitudes about who they are.
