SOCIALIZATION

Biological

Spiritual Sociological

Philosophical Psychological
HUMAN BEINGS

Use of Symbols

Development of
Selfhood

MIND
 SELF & SOCIALIZATION

•SELF
• Distinct identity that sets
us apart from others.
 CHARLES COOLEY:
“LOOKING GLASS SELF”
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD:
“STAGES OF SELF”
 ERVING GOFFMAN:
“DRAMATURGICAL APPROACH”
 THINK – PAIR - SHARE

• How do you react to those who have received

higher or lower grades than you? Do you
engage in impression management? How would
you like others react to your grade?
• What social norms govern students’ impression
management strategies?
 JEAN PIAGET:
“COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT”
SELF & SOCIALIZATION

•SOCIALIZATION
•Process of social
interaction in which
people learn the
attitudes, values, and
behaviors appropriate
for members of a
particular culture.
EMILE DURKHEIM

“Socialization helps us learn society’s

rules and the need to cooperate, as
people end up generally agreeing on
important norms and values, while
social integration, or our ties to other
people and to social institutions such as
religion and the family, helps socialize us
and integrate us into society and
reinforce our respect for its rules.”
 CASE STUDY:
THE CASE OF ISOLATION:
FERAL CHILDREN

• Isolation left children damaged

• Supported critical periods of development
• Success after intensive treatment was
related to mental functioning and age at
rescue.
• Supported critical periods of development
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 8 TABLE 4-3 HIGH SCHOOL POPULARITY

What makes high school girls popular? What makes high school boys popular?
Chapter 4

According to According to According to According to

college men: college women: college men: college women:
1. Physical attractiveness 1. Grades/intelligence 1. Participation in sports 1. Participation in sports

2. Grades/intelligence 2. Participation in sports 2. Grades/intelligence 2. Grades/intelligence

3. Participation in sports 3. General sociability 3. Popularity with girls 3. General sociability

4. General sociability 4. Physical attractiveness 4. General sociability 4. Physical attractiveness

5. Popularity with boys 5. Clothes 5. Car 5. School clubs/government

Note: Students at the following universities were asked in which ways adolescents in their high schools had gained prestige with their peers: Cornell University,
Louisiana State University, Southeastern Louisiana University, State University of New York at Albany, State University of New York at Stony Brook, University of
Georgia, and University of New Hampshire.
Source: Suitor et al. 2001:445.

Gender differences are noteworthy among adolescents. of communicating resemble face-to-face interaction, or does it
Boys and girls are socialized by their parents, peers, and the represent a new form of social interaction? Box 4-3 explores the sig-
media to identify many of the same paths to popularity, but to nificance of this social phenomenon.
 MIND MAP

• Create a mind map of your socialization:

What you’ve learned from family, peers,
school, religion, gender and ethnicity, and
media.
 SOCIALIZATION THROUGH LIFE COURSE:

Rites of Anticipatory Resocialization

Passage socialization

• Dramatizing • Person • Discarding

and rehearses former
validating for future behavior
changes in a positions, patterns and
person’s occupations, accepting
status and social new ones as
relationships part of
transition in
one’s life.