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Socialization continued:
Standard:
SSSocSC1: Students will explain the process of
socialization.
a. Identify and describes the roles and
responsibilities of an individual in society.
c. Identify and evaluate the stages of socialization;
include childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and
death/dying
d. Analyze how individuals are socialized by
gender and race/ethnicity.
Essential Question:
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How might culture shape an individual’s
personality?
SOCIALIZATION
Part II
“Man is the only one that knows nothing,
that can learn nothing without being taught.
He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and
in short he can do nothing at the prompting
of nature only, but weep”
-Pliney the Elder
Roman Scholar
Reminder… “textbook” definition
 Socialization=
Learning the
roles, statuses, behaviors, and
values necessary for
participation in society.
Do you see a crowd or a problem?
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Anthrophobia= fear of people in groups
Nature vs. Nurture
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We have seen that while both are important, nurture
(or social environment) is what makes people
“human”.
We have to learn how to be social, just like we have to
learn everything else.
We become members of the human community
through these three things
Language
 Social interaction.... getting to know
 Physical human contact… touch
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Certain Sociologists specialize in the
study of how we socialize
specifically…
They are all concerned
with how we develop a
sense of self.
Here are the big three.
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#1 Charles Horton Cooley
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Mr. Socialization
Interactionist… think back to Chapter One… he is
concerned with interaction…how one small personal
event leads to another and forms our social reality
“It is a success to be one”, in other words after
society is “done with you” if you can keep your
individuality you have succeeded.
Most important contribution to sociology is one of
the big concepts… THE LOOKING-GLASS SELF
LOOKING GLASS SELF
Explains how we develop our
sense of self.
 LGS is an interactive process
by which we develop an
image of ourselves based on
how we imagine we appear
to others.
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Other people act as a social
mirror in which we react to how
others react to us.
 1st
we imagine our own
appearance.
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“Wow, I look great… love the hair”
 2nd
we interpret how others
react to us.
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“They are looking at my hair funny”
 3rd
we then use that reaction
to judge
ourselves…this is our self
concept.
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“My hair must not look that great”
In other words… do you worry about
what others/ society thinks?????
Remember… it sounds cliché, but
“If you don’t like yourself,
how can others appreciate
you?”
Be comfortable in your skin when you are
around others!!!
Examples of LGS…
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Anorexic who sees him/herself as overweight
while society does not…
Someone embarrassed to dance in public…
A girl afraid to be seen without makeup…
WHY DOES IT MATTER…
Because they are all afraid of how society will
“see” them…
#2 John Locke
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Yes, the same as political John Locke…he was a
sociologist too.
He said everyone is a “Tabula Rasa”… clean
slate on which anything can be written. He
believed we are all born without a
personality and society forms one for us
through social experience.
All nurture, no nature. Few people today take
such an extreme view.
#3 George Mead
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on to Cooley.
 Said seeing ourselves as
others do is only the
beginning…eventually we
actually pretend to or do
take on the role expected.
According to Mead
 1st
we try to live up to the expectations of our
parents and family (significant others) and play
into that expected role
 2nd as we grow older we try to live up to the
expectations of society (generalized others) and
play into that ex. role
 Under 3yrs of age we have “no self”…no role
to play, but we discover it through play and
games (girls get dolls, boys get trucks and
tools)
SOCIAL NETWORKS
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Web of relationships that is formed by the
sum total of a person’s reactions with other
people.
What social networks do you have???
Read “Six Degrees of Separation” pg. 82 in
book.