SOC101

Seminar 3 Socialization
How would you introduce yourself
to someone new?
◎Master status
◎Roles
◎What’s in a name?
Self-concept
◉ I am…
◉ Our sense of self
￮ Social identity –groups
you belong to (social
categories and relationships
with others)
Self-identity

◉ sociological thinking:
two-way street in seeing
relationship between self
and society
◉Labels
◉Norms
 Other concepts related to self
◉Social roles: Specific expectations
attached to individuals fulfilling certain
responsibilities
◉ Scripts
◉Conform to social expectations or not?
◉Or take into account the expectations others have
about HOW we should behave
 Think of the proscribed and prescribed behaviours
for… (SG context)
◎ New ◎Wedding ◎Confinement/ ◎Eating
Year Pregnancy
How much of
’yourself’ is
affected by
society?
Socialisation

◉ process of learning and

generally conforming to -
the norms and values of
the social group
◉Primary (family)
◉Secondary (school)
◉Tertiary (adult –
continues throughout
our lives)
 ◎ Social identity (‘public
self’)
◎Personal identity (qualities
Self and identity that make a person unique)

◎Negotiated everyday
through social interaction
 Goffman ◎ Dramaturgical approach
(The presentation of ◎ Social actor vs social
audience
self in everyday life) ◎ Front stage- back stage
◎ Props
◎ Embarrassment
 ◎‘I’ and ‘Me’
◎ interpret expectations of
Mead other people and
institutions and act
accordingly
◎Reflexivity: Consciously
monitoring our own
behavior
◎Taking the role of the
other
 ◎ Looking-glass self
◎How the image we have of
ourselves is based on how
Cooley we believe others see us
 Socialization is about
the processes by which
people learn social
behavior, develop
sense of social and
personal identities
Question?