ucsp Flashcards
Refers to a lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture.
Socialization
Is the process by which people learn the requirements of their surrounding culture and acquire the values and behaviors appropriate or necessary in that culture.
Enculturation
Three goals of socialization
- Socialization teaches impulse control and helps individuals develop a conscience.
- Socialization teaches individuals how to prepare for and perform certain roles
- Socialization cultivates shared sources of meaning and value.
outlined his interpretation of the three primary goals of socialization:
Sociologist Jeffrey J. Arnett
This goal is accomplished naturally. As people grow up within a particular society, they pick up the expectations of those around them, internalize these expectations to moderate their impulses and develop a conscience.
Socialization teaches impulse control and helps individuals develop a conscience.
Occupational roles, Gender roles, and the roles of the institution such as marriage and parenthood.
Socialization teaches individuals how to prepare for and perform certain roles
Through socialization, people learn to identify what is important and valued within a particular culture.
Socialization cultivates shared sources of meaning and value.
The ‘___’ is a sociological concept.
self
According to him it develops through social interactions—a set of situations (i.e. imitation, play, game, generalized others) where individuals learn to assume roles and meet the increasing level of complexity of each situation.
George Herbert Mead
According to him the absence of social interactions, a person may develop as a biological entity, but he or she will be without the sociality that makes individuals full-fledged members of their society.
Mead
Mead proposed a four-staged process of the development of the self.
- Imitation
- Play
- Game
- Generalized other
The child starts with mimicking behaviors and actions of significant others around him or her.
- Imitation
The child takes different roles he or she observes in “adult” society, and the plays them out to gain understanding of the different social roles, as a result of such play, the child learns to become both subject and object and begins to become able to build a self.
- Play
In the game stage, the child must take the role of everyone else involved in the game. In this stage, organization begins and definite personalities start to emerge.
- Game
Children begin to function in organized groups and most importantly, to determine what they will do within a specific group.
- Generalized other
is the development of an individual’s distinct personality, which is regarded as a persisting entity in a particular stage of life by which a person is recognized or known.
Identity formation
is which the individual thinks of him and herself as a discrete and separate entity.
Identity
Different variations of identity
Cultural identity
Ethnic identity
National identity
Religious identity
is one’s feeling of identity or affiliation with a group or culture.
Cultural identity
is the identification with a certain ethnicity , usually the basis of a presumed common genealogy or ancestry.
Ethnic identity
is an ethical and philosophical concept whereby all humans are divided into groups called nations.
National identity
is the set of beliefs and practices generally held by an individual involving adherence to codified beliefs and rituals and the study of ancestral or cultural traditions.
Religious identity
Is a rule that guides the behavior of members of a society or group. Norms are an important part of the cultural capital that each of us possesses and embodies. For the most part, norms are things that we take for granted and spend a little time thinking about it, but we become highly conscious about them when we break or do not follow
them.
For example: we know that when we have gathered a variety of items for purchase in a store, we must proceed to the cashier and pay for them. We also know that sometimes we must wait in line when there are others who have arrived at the cashier before us. If a person cuts the line or drops something that makes a mess and does nothing, in response others might call out the person’s behavior visually through eye contact and facial expressions or verbally. This would be a form of social sanction.
Norms
Two variations of norms:
- Mores
- Folkways