GOOD MORNING

CLASS 
Understanding Culture, Society and Politics
Ms. Irhie Maan B. Lansangan
WHO AM I?
SOCIALIZATION
AS A PROCESS OF
BECOMING
FULLY HUMAN
Human beings as necessarily social

“Men make their own history, but

they do not make it just as they
please in circumstances they
choose for themselves; rather
they make it in present
circumstances, given and
inherited.”
-Karl Marx
Socialization is traditionally
seen as one-way process in
which society molds the
individual to conform to the
established social norms and
rules.
Social determinism is a doctrine
that says individual have no
choice but to follow certain
factors or causes that control
their behaviors.
Feral children lack the
necessary skills and
knowledge such as language
to be competent members of
society.
The usual description of the
“modern self” is “self-contained
individual” or bounded,
masterful self. This is also called
“sovereign self.”
 The Filipino concept kapwa is
the integration of self and
others.
 Sarili points not to man (tao)
but to his being a man
(pagkatao or personhood)
Essentialist view of the self
equates the self with certain pre-
given and unchanging
characteristics, such as gender
and sexuality, language, and
rationality or reasoning capacity.
The process of acquiring a self is
called “subjectification”
ACQUIRING A SELF, THE PROCESS OF
SELF-CONSTITUTION

Herbert Mead
 American sociologist and the
father of sociological tradition
called “symbolic
interactionalism”
Symbolic Interactionalism is a
concept of the self that is
acquired with symbolic gestures.
 The “I” and “me”

“Significant others” are the

individuals to whom a person
has intimate relationship such as
immediate family members,
relatives, peer group, and friends.
 Social roles and identity

Personal Identity
 Is the most elementary type of
identity
 Social classification of an
individual into a category of
one
 Name, birth date, current
status as a student, student
number or ID
 Positions are clusters of
rights, duties, and
obligations. Positions exist
as expectations, beliefs,
and presuppositions.
GENDER AND SOCIALIZATION

BECOMING A MAN/WOMAN
Activity:
Self-assessment
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Understanding Culture, Society and Politics
Ms. Irhie Maan B. Lansangan