Sociology Chapter 5

Socialization: the lifelong social experience by which people devop their human potential and learn culture Humans need social experience to learn their culture and to survive. Devolopment of indivisual o o o Self image Personality: consistent patterns Group tells us who we are

Internalizing surrouonding s social experiences

Personality: a persons fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling. Society makes us Human o o o Babies do not develop naturally into human adults Humans develop into adults in interaction Cant become humans without becoming yourself

Socialization= resocialization : radically changing an inmates personality by carefully controlling the environment= life course Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929) Looking Glass Theory o o o Mind is social and society is a mental construct self and society are twin born Self: doing and looking at himself as doing o o o o Imagine now we appear We interpet others reaction Develop a self concept

Self is an internal conversation

George Herbert Mead (1863-1931)

I and ME Self: part of an indivisual personality and self awareness I and the Me: taking the role of the other , we become self aware Development of self: imitation , significant others Generalized other: cultural norms and values we use as a reference in evaluating ourselves Looking Glass: how we think others see us 3 part process: o o o Develops only with social develops Social experience is exchange of symbols Taking the roles of the other

I: human actions partly Me : objective form , in response to others

1. Imitation 2. Engage in play : role playing taking one thing at a time 3. Engaging in games: bring it together 4. Generalized other: forming self

Mead: interaction, micro, symbolic interaction

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) o Relationships among parents and child forms psychological make up of a child

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Unconsciousness Sublimation: competing demands of self and society results in a compromise/ redirects selfish drives into socially acceptable behavior

Theory:

ID o o o EGO o Persons conscious efforts to balance innate pleasure seeking drives with society Reality /rational Child learns to control urges so as to get what one wants Humans beings basic drives Unconscious and demand immediate satisfaction Newborns; if you dont stisfy it

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SuperEGO o o Personality o o o o o Established by age five Influenced by pleasure seeking id which focuses on certain behavior Libido is the driving force behind behavior Complete stages correctly and you have a complete personality Complete one stage incorrectly and you become fixated Child earns right/wrong Self punishment guilt; feeling good

Fixation o A persistent focus on an early psychosesxual stage

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Person becomes stuch in that stage This leads to negative behavior traits

Stages o o o o o Oral Anal Oedipal Latent Genital

Jean Piaget ( 1896-1980) Cognitive Development Cognition: now people think and understand