SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: George Herbert Mead, Gender Identity, Symbolic Interactionism
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Primary socialization: occurs in childhood, crucial learning process, makes us members of society. Secondary socialization: after primary, whole life, following the first few years of life, able to communicate, symbolize, self, empathy. Channel and guide behaviour of everyday life. Make things smooth and orderly, freeing us from the need to plan every step. Influenced by subcultures: has distinctive values, norms and practices. Natural differences exist among people but explains little about social behaviour and organization. Sociologist emphasize importance of society and socialization: suspicious of biological inheritance, often shifts to racist and sexist views. Not born human, we become human: through social interaction, biological need for social interaction, anna (pg. Self image greatly depends on social interaction. Research demonstrates the importance of the body for constructing self and identity: self is not fixed, can modify self when necessary radically altering it in response to interactions with others.
