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    INTRODUCTION

    TO
    SOCIOLOGY
    Lecture 15

    SOCIALIZATIO
    N

    THE MASS MEDIA


    Impersonal communication

    directed to large audiences.


    Provides entertainment +
    socialization [shape the self].
    Concerns of people about the
    contents of portrayal.
    Has become more powerful

    SOCIALIZATION AND
    THE LIFE COURSE
    Life course is a biological process
    Life course as five distinct
    stages: childhood, adolescence,
    young adulthood, the middle
    years, and old age.

    Significance of the Life


    Course
    Life course is a social construction.
    Stages present transitions that
    require learning new and
    unlearning familiar routines.
    Each stage is affected by other
    factors like ones social location.
    Life experiences vary due to when,
    in history of society, he was born.

    Childhood first 12 years


    Time for learning and play.
    Situation in developed and

    developing countries vary.


    Issue of child labor.
    Concept of childhood rooted in
    culture.
    Hurried childhood syndrome.

    Adolescence About age 1319


    Physiological changes to puberty.
    Socially constructed.
    Establishing some independence
    and learning specialized skills.
    Emotional and social turmoil.
    Intergenerational conflict.
    Develop youth culture.

    Young Adulthood ages 2039


    Personalities formed
    Manage responsibilities personally
    Adjustment with spouse an issue.
    Bring up children in their own way
    Many conflicting priorities.

    Middle years ages 4060


    Assess actual achievement.
    Children grown up.
    Health concerns. Physical

    decline
    Has there been a self-fulfillment.

    Old Age about mid 60s


    Societies attach different

    meanings old age.


    Old people assumed to have
    amassed wisdom.
    Old are conservative
    unimportant, obsolete.
    Pick new roles.

    INTRODUCTION
    TO
    SOCIOLOGY
    Lecture 15

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