Chapter 4 Socialization Flashcards
(21 cards)
What is the Ego?
Freud called the ego the rational part of the personality that controls the id’s basic urges.
What is the Id?
Frued labeled the id as the part of the personality that is focused on pleasure.
What is the superego?
Freud labeled the superego as a person’s conscience.
What is internalization?
When societys expectations and rules become part of an individuals personality.
Socialization
The process of learning cultural values, norms, and expectations.
Self
One’s personality that develops through interaction with others.
Feral Children
Children alleged to have been raied by animals or raised in severe isolation
The looking-glass self
Cooley’s metaphor of a looking glass is used to convey the idea that all people understand themselves the way in which other people act toward them.
Generalized other
The pressures and expectations of parents, friends, and society.
Hidden curriculum
Whereas the formal curriculum teaches subjects e.g. math, hidden curriculum teaches expectations of society surrounding behavior.
Primary groups
Groups whose members are most intimately involved with each other like families.
Secondary groups
Large, impersonal groups that are formally organized, task oriented, and relatively nonpermanent.
Groupthink
A psychological phenomenon in whivh people set aside their own personal beliefs or adopt the opinion of the rest of the group.
Charles Cooley
The looking glass self and body image. I am not what I think I am. I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am. 1. We imagine how others se us, 2.We imagine how others are judging us. 3.We react accordingly based on our interpretations/imaginations.
George Mead
- Imitation stage
- Play stage
- Game stage
Discovery of “Generalized other”
Albert Bandura
Social Cognitive Theory
Children observe the behavior of others and feedback of such.
Feedback serves as a guide for their actions as they model themselves after others.
Sigmund Freud
The psychoanalytic view
Socialization is the process by which soceity controls the id.
Children develops ego.
The superego also emerges, which is the internalization of morals of the parents.
Four major agents of socialization impact the individual
The family
The Schools
Peers
The Media
Power of the social group
Group affects perception, conviction, health and life, and behavior.
Order theorists
socialization process is necessary to promote stability and order in society
Conflict theorists
Socialization process is necessary to lead people to accept customs, laws, and values of society and become willing participants in soceity even though it may need change.
