Socialization: Getting Inside

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Socialization Getting Inside

• SOCIETY MAKES US HUMAN
• SOCIALIZATION a process of social interaction
  by which people acquire the knowledge, attitudes,
  values, and behaviors essential for effective
  participation in society. Hughes p 70

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• Nurture vs Nature It is not who dominates, but
  how they interact!
• As we act on and modify the world in which we
  live, we in turn are shaped and transformed by
  our own actions. Hughes p 72

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A) The Process of Socialization
Internalization
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1. Why we need socialization

• a. Incomplete
• b. Safety and comfort
• c. Working consensus establish commonness
  Hughes p 77
• d. Social control
• e. Fill social roles

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2. Socialization Types or Life Course
Transitions Hughes p 86

• a. Initial childhood socialization
• b. Anticipatory Socialization
• c. Resocialization (important new norms
  values)
• d. Adult socialization
• e. Retro-socialization

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3. Where does it occur?

• a. Nursery of Human Nature Cooley's "The
  Primary Group
• b. Springs of Life
• c. Primary Group as Ideal Type
• d.Characteristics of Primary Group
• 1. Physical
• 2. Content

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1. Physical

• a. Physical proximity
• b. Smallness, numerical
• c. Duration, temporal

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2. Content

• a. Identity of ends
• b. End in itself
• c. Relationship is personal-- non-transferable
• d. Relationship is inclusive or diffuse
• e. Relationship is spontaneous

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4. Identity is

• a. Created
• b. Sustained
• c. Transformed in interaction with others

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B. The Social Self G.H. Mead
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1. Stages of Self Development Mead and
Caldwell

• CALDWELL
• a. At Birth Stage
• b. Babbling and Cooing Stage, 3-9 months Piage
  sensorimotor stage birth to 18 months
  Hughes p 73

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• MEAD Hughes p 84-85
• a. Imitative Stage, 6-18 month range
• b. Play Stage, 24 months
• c. Game Stage, 30-36 months

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2. The expanding world Significant to
Generalized Other
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GENERALIZED OTHER
SELF
SIGNIGICANT OTHERS
GENERA-IZED OTHER
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3. Mead and Mills
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4. Mead's Self Process Hughes p 82-85

• a. The me object
• b. The I subject
• c. The self is a process by which we devise
  our actions in order to fit them to the ongoing
  actions of othersHughes p 82

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5. Reconsider Cooley's "The Looking Glass
Self Reflexive Behavior, Hughes p 74

• a. ImagineWe imagine how we appear to
  those around us
• b. EvaluateWe interpret others
  reactions
• c. Pride and MortificationWe develop a
  self-concept Hughes p 83

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6. Socialization as social control

• Internalization
• Compliance
• Identification Conformity Independence
• Social Control becomes Self Control Hughes p 84

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7. Becker Object of Value

• "Object of Primary Value in a World of Meaningful
  Action"

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C.Agents of Socialization (Culture transmitters)

• 1. Family
• 2. Peers
• 3. Media
• 4. Educational Institutions
• 5. Occupational Settings

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D. Family Agent College Sorority
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1. Scott's goal P. 515

• Control of marital choice by ascriptive groups
• Adapted to conditions of mass higher education
• Motives persist
• Ancient institutions of Kinship and novel forms
  of industrial social organization

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2. Latent and Manifest function,p 523

• Encourage timely marriage
• In conformity with norms of Endogamy or Hypergamy

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• Risks of exogamous or hypogamous love
• Restricting heterosexual encounters
• Conditions too complex as a Latent function
  ever to be made Manifest

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3. Manifest function,p 524

• Family affiliation and home
• Sympathetic interest, wise supervision,
  disinterested advice
• Corner stone of social structure the family

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• Cut loose, drift far from home moorings
• Dorms destroy right ideals
• Freedom comes from community living
• Weaned from home and friends

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4. Latent function,P.524

• Love with wrong kind
• Assure marriage to right kind
• Arrange meaningful encounters with lots of the
  right kind

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• Marriage not put off
• Maintain norms of ascriptive groups
• Critical point Move from family of orientation
  to family of procreation

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5. Factors in Marital Choice by Ascriptive
Groups, P.516
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a. Kinship and Higher Education

• 1. Conflict
• 2. Family primary group
  
• 3. Higher Education secondary group

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b. Endogamy

• 1. Exogamy and Endogamy
• 2. Hypergamy and Hypogamy
• 3. Brahmin problem
• 4. Educational brahmins
• 5. Class specific vanity, footnote 19, P.520

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c. Love Love Story

• Inventing the Abbotts, Fools Rush In, Sabrina,
  or Titanic

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d. Heterogeneity of Public Education
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e. A Timely Marriage
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f. Summary
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The Lottery The Movie!

• Culture What does it say about culture?
• What does it say about social reality?
• What does it say about commitment?
• What does it say about socialization impression
  management?

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What needs clarification?

• AND CLOSER INSPECTION?

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EXAMPLE EXAM QUESTIONS

• THINK CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
• TAKE OUT THE IRRELEVANT ANSWER
• IF YOU DO NOT FIND A FEW HUMOROUS OPTIONS WORRY!

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In attempting to analyze why Bob threw a beer
bottle at his television set after his favorite
football lost the Big Game, Judy exclaimed
Well, you know how aggressive and impulsive
those Scorpios are. Judys statement is an
example of

• A. Sociological astrology
• B. Folk sociology
• C. Value-free sociology
• D. Value-free astrology
• E. Scientific sociology

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The assumption that a set of social factors,
variables, etc., exists in society, outside the
individual, and constrains individuals to behave
in particular ways is basic to which sociological
perspective?

• A. The interactionist perspective
• B. The behaviorists perspective
• C. The conflict perspective
• D. The externalist perspective
• E. None of the above

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Unlike other animals, human beings relate to the
world through _________________ relationships.

• A. Procreative
• B. Direct stimulus-response
• C. Created
• D. Symbolic
• E. All of the above

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FOR THE EXAM ON THURSDAY

• BRING
• LOTS OF
• PENCILS

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SIT EVERY OTHER SEAT, SPREAD OUT

• Have an empty seat next to you, if possible
• Turn hat bills around

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STUDY

• STUDY
• AND STUDY SOMEMORE
• THEN RELAX, SLEEP!!!!

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