RS 1000

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RS 1000

• Topics of Discussion
• Nature/Nurture
• Socialization Role Play
• Reflexive Thinking
• Role Taking
• Generalized other
• Looking-Glass Self

• Class Business

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Nature/Nurture

• Nature-Human genetic makeup or biological
  inheritance.
• Nurture-The environment or the interaction
  experiences that make up every individuals life.

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Socialization Role Play

• You are the Mother of Ann (8) and James (5).
• You and your husband are out shopping with the
  children.
• As a parent you are an important agent of
  socialization in the lives of your children.
• Socialize them regarding the proper toy to select
  based on our dominant culture.

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Socialization Role Play

• You are the father of Ann (8) and James (5).
• You and your wife are out shopping with the
  children.
• As a parent you are an important agent of
  socialization in the lives of your children.
• Socialize them regarding the proper toy to select
  based on our dominant culture.

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Socialization Role Play

• You are Ann, age 8.
• You are out shopping with your parents and your
  brother James, aged 5.
• You really want your parents to buy you the
  Import Tuners Toyota Supra and Mitsubishi Lanevo
  VII (toy cars). Try to get your way.
• Can they convince you to go for the Bratz Fashion
  Mall instead?

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Socialization Role Play

• You are James, 5 years of age
• You are out shopping with your parents and your
  sister Ann.
• You really, really, really want the Bratz Fashion
  Mall. Try to convince your parents to get it for
  you. Try to get your way.
• Will they be able to convince you to get the toy
  cars instead?

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Mead and Cooley

• Their theories suggest that self-awareness and
  self-identity derive from our relationships with
  others and an ability to think reflexively, that
  is to step outside oneself and view the self from
  anothers perspective.

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Reflexive Thinking

• Stepping outside the self and observing and
  evaluating it from anothers viewpoint

• Mead-Role Taking
• Imitation
• Play
• Game
• Cooley-Looking-Glass Self
• People act as mirrors of one another

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Role Taking

• The process of stepping outside the self and
  imagining how others view its appearance and
  behavior imaginatively from an outsiders
  perspective.
• Preparatory-imitation
• Play-spontaneous activity with few or no formal
  rules, no time constraints, or set location. If
  rules exist they are developed by the children.
• Game-Structured, organized activities. Roles and
  established rules specified, activity aimed at an
  outcome. Children learn to follow established
  rules, take roles of all participants
  simultaneously-that is understand the different
  roles of participants and see how their position
  fits in relation to all other positions.

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Looking-glass self

• A process in which a sense of self develops such
  that people see themselves reflected in others
  imagined reactions to their appearance and
  behaviors.

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Resocialization

• The process of discarding values and behaviors
  unsuited to new circumstances and replacing them
  with new, more appropriate values and norms.
• Examples?