Chapter 05
Chapter 05
Chapter 05
The lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture
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Social Experience
Socialization
The lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn patterns of their culture
Personality
A persons fairly consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting
Could a persons personality develop without social interaction?
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Nature or nurture?
Its both, but from a sociological perspective, nurture matters more.
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Social Isolation
Effect on nonhuman primates: Harlows experiments
Six months of complete isolation was enough to disturb development.
Genie
Somewhat less isolated, but suffered permanent disabilities
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Sigmund Freud
Elements of Personality
Basic human needs: Eros and thanatos as opposing forces
Developing personality
The id: Basic drives The ego: Efforts to achieve balance The superego: Culture within
Managed conflict
Id and superego are in constant states of conflict, with the ego balancing the two.
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Jean Piaget
Cognitive Development
Cognition
How people think and understand
Stages of development
Sensorimotor stage: Sensory contact understanding Preoperational stage: Use of language and other symbols Concrete operational stage: Perception of causal connections in surroundings Formal operational stage: Abstract, critical thinking
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Lawrence Kohlberg
Moral Development
Moral reasoning The ways in which individuals judge situations as right or wrong Preconventional Young children experience the world as pain or pleasure Conventional Teens lose selfishness as they learn to define right and wrong in terms of what pleases parents and conforms to cultural norms. Postconventional Final stage, considers abstract ethical principles
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Carol Gilligan
Gender Factor
Compared moral reasoning of girls and boys
Boys develop a justice perspective. Formal rules define right and wrong. Girls develop a care-and-responsibility perspective. Personal relationships define reasoning. Critical evaluation Cultural conditioning accounted for the differences. Male and female morals will probably become more similar as more women enter the workplace.
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Mead
Looking-glass selfA self-image based on how we think others see us
The I and Me: The self has two parts.
Active side of the self is I Objective side of the self is me
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Mead
Development of Self
Imitation
Infants mimic behavior without understanding intentions.
Play
Taking the roles of significant others
Games
Taking the roles of several others at once
Generalized other
Widespread cultural norms and values we use as a reference in evaluating ourselves
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MEAD
I and Me
FREUD
Id and superego
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Eric H. Erickson
Eight stages of development Challenges throughout the life course Stage 1 - Infancy: trust
(Versus mistrust)
Erickson
Stages
(versus confusion)
5-8
Agents of Socialization
The Family The School The Peer Group The Mass Media
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The Family
Most important agent
A loving family produces a happy well-adjusted child.
Household environment
Stimulates development
Social position
Race, religion, ethnicity, class
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The School
Experience diversity
Racial and gender clustering
Hidden curriculum
Informal, covert lessons
First bureaucracy
Rules and schedule
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Peer Groups
A social group whose members have interests, social position and age in common
Developing sense of self that goes beyond the family Young and old attitudes and the generation gap Peers often govern short-term goals while parents influence long-term plans. Anticipatory socialization
Practice working toward gaining desired positions
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Dying
85% of Americans die after age 55. Elisabeth Kbler-Ross stages of dying
Denial Anger Negotiation Resignation Acceptance
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Total Institutions
A setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society and manipulated by an administrative staff.
Erving Goffman
Staff supervises all daily life activities Environment is standardized. Formal rules and daily schedules
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Resocialization
Efforts to radically change an inmates personality by carefully controlling the environment
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