Notes:
4.1
socialization: the process by which individuals learn the appropriate attitudes and behaviors within a culture
self: individuals nature and identity resulting from reflections
I: unsocialized self made up of personal desires and needs
me: social self, made up of the internalized attitudes of others
-mead viewed the socialized self as phases: preparatory, play, and game
preparatory: imitation of others
play: pretending to be others
game: taking the role of multiple people at once
Mead labeled this as generalized other: process of internalizing societal norms and expectations
looking-glass self: process of imagining the reaction of others toward oneself
three phases of looking glass self
1. imagine how you appear to others
2. imagine the judgement of you appearance by others
3. determine how the process influences your self by combining how you imagine you appear to others and their judgements to your appearance.
mead and cooley said that the socialized self is made by day-to-day interactions
4.2
agents of socialization: individuals, groups and institutions that influence the attitudes and behaviors of members
– agents communicate standardized messages of what is acceptable in every day lives
social learning theory: the process of learning from one another ina social context as a result of observation and imitation. By Albert Bandura
peer groups: soc ial groups consisting of memebers with similar interests, rank, and age
high-status youth: viewed as popular among peers
digital natives: individuals born after the widespread of technology
digital immigrants: individuals born before the widespread of technology
4.3
feral children: children isolated and neglected as they are raised without socialization
– its true that the social class of the parents play a key role in the socialization of children
total institution: isolated group with strict rules, goal is to control every aspect of members lives
resocialization: identity transformation in which social norms and roles are altered or replaced
degradation ceremony: an event used to break fown people, making them more accepting of a total institution.
anticipatory socialization: process of learning different behaviors in effort to get membership in a group
rite of passage: ceremony to mark a change in age or social status
4.4
dramaturgy: theory that we are all actors on the stage of life.
Goffman\\\\\\\’s theory
two areas in this
front stage: persons public life that they reveal in the world
backstage: a persons private life that they choose not to reveal
impression maangement: an effort to control the impression others have made of us.
distance zones: amount of space we are socialized to feel comfortable having between ourselves and others
majority of teens feel self-conconcious and purposely make it seem like their life is perfect on social media
life course perspective: a series of social changes that a person experiences over the course of their lifetime