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Social Experience
Socialization: The lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn patterns of their culture.
Personality: A person’s fairly consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting.
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Human Development: Nature and Nurture
Nature: The human life depends on the functioning of the body and heredity plays a part in intelligence, and personality characteristics.
Nurture: Current values and behaviour are so different from grandparents (with whom we share genes) that learning must be essential.
Social experience and the creation of culture is our nature.
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Social Isolation
Impact on nonhuman primates: Harlows’ experiments– Six months of complete isolation was enough to disturb
development
Impact on children: Anna, Isabelle, and Genie– Years of isolation left children damaged and after
intensive rehabilitation effort only capable of approximating a normal life.
– Anna was permanently damaged; Isabelle attended grade six at 14years; Genie’s language remained that of a child.
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Sigmund Freud: Elements of Personality
Basic human needs– Eros (bonding) and thanatos (aggression) as
opposing forces Developing personality
– The id: Basic drives– The ego: Works to achieve balance – The superego: Culture within
Critical evaluation: Devalues women, but showed that childhood experiences are important
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Jean Piaget: Cognitive Development
Stages of development: Sensorimotor stage: Sensory contact of world Preoperational stage: Use of language and other
symbols Concrete operational stage: Perception of causal
connections in surroundings Formal operational stage: Abstract, critical thinkingCritical evaluation: stages not followed by all cultures
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Lawrence Kohlberg: Moral Development
Stages of moral development: Preconventional: Children experience the world as
pain or pleasure Conventional: Young people do what pleases
parents and conforms to cultural norms Postconventional: Consider abstract ethical
principlesCritical evaluation: Some do not progress and stages
were generalized from males
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Carol Gilligan: Bringing in Gender
Compared boy’s and girl’s moral reasoning Boys develop a justice perspective
– Formal rules define right and wrong
Girls develop a care and responsibility perspective– Personal relationships define reasoning
Critical evaluation: Variation occurs in the shaping of women’s caring work across cultures
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George Herbert Mead: The Social Self
The Self: the part of an individual’s personality composed of self-awareness and self-image
1. Self develops from social interaction.2. Social experience is the exchange of symbols.3. Understanding intention requires imagining the
situation from the other’s point of view.4. By taking the role of the other we become self-
aware.
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Charles Horton Cooley
The Looking-Glass Self Others represent a mirror in which we see ourselves. What we think of ourselves depends on what we
think others think of us.
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Mead’s I and Me
The I is the subjective element of the self. As we take the role of the other, the me is the
objective form of the self. All social experience has both components.
– We initiate action (I-phase).– We continue based on how others respond (me-phase).
Social experience is the interplay of the I and the me.
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Mead’s Development of Self
Imitation: Infant mimics behaviour without understanding
Play: taking the roles of significant others Games: Taking the roles of several others at once Generalized other: Cultural norms and values we
use in evaluating ourselvesCritical evaluation: No biological component is
included.
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Erik H. Erikson: 8 Stages
1. Infancy: challenge of trust2. Toddler: autonomy3. Preschooler: initiative4. Preadolescent: industriousness5. Adolescent: identity6. Young adulthood: intimacy7. Middle adulthood: making a difference8. Old age: integrityCritical evaluation: not everyone follows order
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Agents of Socialization
Family: teaches skills and values and places in social positions, e.g., sex, ethnicity, and class.
School: teaches knowledge and skills, hidden curriculum, and bureaucracy.
Peer Group: have interests, position, and age in common. It teaches the forming of relationships, the “generation gap” and fashions.
(Cont’d)
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Mass Media
Impersonal communications aimed at a wide audience. Canadian children watch television well before they
learn to read and the number of hours of viewing tends to increase with age
Canadians watch mostly U.S. programs. Violence and mass media: concerns led to studies of
the influence and promotion of a V-chip
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Socialization and the Life Course
Childhood (birth through 12) Care-free time, now the hurried child?Adolescence (the teenage years) Turmoil attributed to cultural inconsistenciesAdulthood Early: 20-40, managing daily affairs Middle: 40-60, concerns over health, appearance,
career, and family (Cont’d)
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Socialization and the Life Course (Cont’d)
Old age (mid-60s and older) Anti-elderly bias will diminish as proportion of
elderly increases Leaving roles, demands new learning
Dying Average life span is 79 years Culture will become more comfortable with death?
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The Life Course: An Overview
Each stage of life is linked to the biological process, but it is also a social construction
Societies organize the life course by age, but other factors shape lives class, race, ethnicity, and gender
People’s life experiences also vary depending on when, in the history of a society, they are born, hence
Cohort: A category of people with a common characteristic, usually their age
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Resocialization: Total Institutions
Total Institution: A setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society and manipulated by an administrative staff.
Three characteristics according to Erving Goffman1. Staff supervise all daily life activities2. Environment is standardized3. Formal rules and daily schedules
(Cont’d)
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Resocialization: Total Institutions (Cont’d)
Resocialization: Radically changing a person’s personality by carefully controlling the environment
A two part process Staff tries to erode inmate’s autonomy and
identity Staff rebuilds personality using rewards and
punishments.
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