Sociology Chapter 4 example #15303

the cultural process of learning to participate in group life through cultural transmission

experimented with monkeys to show the importance of affection, intimacy, and warmth

intensive and prolonged social contact with others

offers the most fully developed perspective for studying socialization

is developed by using other people as mirrors for learning more about ourselves, it is your image of yourself as having an identity separate from other people

stresses the ways in which groups work together to create a stable society

views socialization as a way of perpetrating the status quo (ex: a person accepts his family's social class and thus preserves the class system

we use other people as mirrors to reflect back what we imagine they think of us

1. We imagine how we appear to others 2. We imagine the reaction of others to our appearance 3. We evaluate ourselves according to how we imagine others have judged us

the people whose judgements are most important to our self-concepts or image of ourself

allows us to see ourselves through the eyes of someone else

1. Imitation stage 2. Play stage 3. Game stage

Mead's first stage in the development of role taking; children begin to imitate behaviors without understanding why

second stage in the development of role taking; children act in ways they imagine other people would

third stage in the development of role taking; children anticipate the actions of others based on social rules

an integrated conception of norms, values, and belief's of one's community or society

predictability and conformity learned through socialization

unlearned, spontaneous acts

family, school, peer group, and mass media

1. Think and speak 2. Internalize norms, beliefs, and values 3. Form some basic attitudes 4. Develop a capacity for intimate and personal relationships 5. Acquire a self-image

the informal and unofficial aspects of culture that children are taught in school

1. Discipline 2. Order 3. Cooperation 4. Conformity(develop a sense of what is right and wrong and act accordingly) *These characteristics are required for success in the adult world of work

composed of individuals of roughly the same age and interest

1. Conflict, cooperation, and competition 2. Self direction(becoming an individual) 3. Independence from adults 4. Developing close ties with friends outside the family

means of communication designed to reach the general population, such as television, newspapers, and radio

1. Display of role models 2. Exposure to the ideas about the values in our society

Exposure to violence

views socialization as a life long process

the process of having to give up old norms

the process in which people adopt new norms, values, attitudes and behaviors

concerned with voluntary changes, such as moving from one life stage to another

the process in preparing in advance for new norms, values, attitudes and behaviors (Ex: preparing for retirement)

groups of people will use this to evaluate themselves acquire attitudes, values, beliefs, and norms

places where residents are separate from the rest of society, the purpose these places is to desocialize and then resocialize people