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    Sociology

    Chapter 4 notes
    Socialization

    Socialization
    • This concept has evolved, and the focus is now often on the result of this process
    internalization.
    • The process by which people learn about their culture. How people learn their norms
    values and beliefs.

    How socialization works


    • Individuals are formed insofar as they adopt the surrounding community’s culture.
    • Humans are continuously surrounded and influenced by real or imagined others, who
    constitute a person’s social environment.

    Theories and agents of socialization


    • Socialization processes operate through a variety of social institutions:
    – Families
    – Schools
    – Peer groups
    – The mass media

    The three important factors of socialization


    1. Context
    2. Content and processes
    3. The results or outcomes

    Families and Schools


    • The family into which you are born also exerts an enduring influence over the course of
    your life.
    • Family is primarily socialization.
    • Primary is building the foundation. Teaching you rights from wrongs, language etc…
    • The public school system became increasingly responsible for secondary socialization:
    Socialization outside the family after childhood
    • Secondary is when a child learns the values, beliefs and attitudes of their culture
    through those outside of the family, such as teachers.
    School: Functions and Conflicts
    • Disproportionate numbers of students from poor and racial-minority families reject the
    hidden curriculum and often do poorly in school.
    • Reflects the Thomas theorem: “Situations we define as real become real in their
    consequences.”

    Peer Groups
    • People who are about the same age and of similar status as the individual.
    • Status:
    • Help integrate young people into the larger society.
    • Important advantages and disadvantages

    The Mass Media


    • Has become an increasingly important socializing agent in twenty-first century.
    • Includes television, radio, movies, videos, CDs, audiotapes, the Internet, newspapers,
    magazines, and books.

    Theories of Childhood Socialization


    • The self: Consists of your ideas and attitudes about who you are.
    • Formation of a sense of self begins in childhood and continues in adolescence.
    • Cooley’s ‘Looking-glass self’
    • The Rene Spitz Study

    Genie
    • Based off an American feral child who was a victim of severe abuse, neglect, and social
    isolation.
    • Severe consequences of living in isolation.
    • Childhood socialization has been understood as playing an integral role in the
    development of humans.

    Gender differences in socialization


    • A brief news report about a Toronto couple’s attempt to not disclose their baby’s sex
    and the intense debate that it caused.

    Adult socialization
    • The development of the self is a lifelong process.
    – We call this process the ‘Life course’
    • The flexible self
    • Identity and the Internet
    Resocialization and total institutions
    • Initiation rites: rituals or practices where people transition from one group to another.
    • Resocialization: the process of learning new attitudes and norms required for a new
    social role. a spectrum. Were constantly being re-socialized.

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