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Week 6: Socialization (What is Socialization? (An ongoing, interactive…
Week 6: Socialization
What is Socialization?
An ongoing, interactive process through which individuals develop a sense of self and learn culture.
Way of thinking, feeling and acting. (Analytically, these three are different) Who you are is always going to be changing due to this process.
Guides the internalisation of actions and expectations, enabling successful social performance of roles and identities.
Socialization is not just an external force, we're not passive participants in socialization, we have a role to play. E.g student come to class because student treat it as objectively real, internalize it as natural and normal)
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What is real outside corresponds to what is real "within", but there is always an objective reality available than it is actually internalized, an ongoing balancing act. (for e.g, family is true in terms of primary socialization but not true for secondary.)
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Stages of Primary Socialization Mead's Play stage, Game Stage and Generalized other.
Primary socialization: Learning how to survive through primary socialization, in which language helps to impart values to us at an early stage. We learn to identify and relate with people.
Mead: Primary socialization as occuring in stages: 1.) Play Stage: Use of significant symbols, perform specific roles (one role at a time) e.g children start learning language and playing of games like "family". Practicing being certain people and practicing building r/s.
2.) Game Stage: Understanding of multiple, reciprocal roles. Recognizing that the world is much more complex and have structured rules. Deceloping our sense of self in relation to multiple people all the time.
Generalized other: Whereever one is, one has a sense of how other people is relating to him/her in some way, internalize various kinds of role. Internalization of cultural expectations in various roles, situations.
Secondary Socialization: We learn specific roles, something occuring after you have incorporate sense of the generalized other. E.g how to be a good friend. Generic social process where we learn how to connect with people and be involved.
Phases: Antipacitory, Formal, Informal and Personal.
Socialization theory is functional but abstract. Everyday life is more complex with multiple shifting significant others.
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Vast array of reference groups to use as vantage points. Which reference groups as more important is the primary concern for the study of why people act the way they do.