Schaefer, CHAPTER 4: SOCIALIZATION

((STORIES TODAY:
  1) Man intending to kill his wife and her lover and killed himself instead
  2) Chalk-as-symbol of educational oppression

Chapter Four's topic is simply:  HOW DO  PEOPLE LEARN OR Acquire CULTURE??!!

We do it through SOCIALIZATION

DEFINITION:  SOCIALIZATION IS SIMPLY THE PROCESS BY WE LEARN THE ATTITUDES, 
VALUES, AND ACTIONS Appropriate as INDIVIDUALS of a PARTICULAR CULTURE.

A few key concepts from the chapter: 

     1.  ISOLATION.

     2.  NATURE/NURTURE

     3.  SELF:
           A) DEVELOPING SELF
           B) LOOKING-GLASS SELF (COOLEY)
              (IMPRESSIONS ABOUT HOW OTHERS SEE US)

     4.  MEAD: EMERGING SELF:
           A) SYMBOLS: Gestures, objects, and language that form the basis 
              of communication.
           B) GENERALIZED OTHER
           C) I/ME
              1) I = subjective/feelings/spontaneous
              2) ME = socially shaped "testable" awareness of others
           D) Stages of self development:
              1) Prepartory stage (to age 3) - primative and imitative
              2) Play stage (3 to 5) - language use, rules/norms
              3) Game stage (early school) - awareness of others

      4. Freud
         1) Id
         2) Ego
         3) Superego

      5.  GOFFMAN: DRAMATURGY:

              1) BACKSTAGE
                 A) CONCEALING
                 B) FABRICATING

              2) FRONT STAGE
                 A) IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT
                 B) FACEWORK--"ACCOUNTS" TO LOOK GOOD

       6. Theories of Moral development
     
          1) Piaget - cognitive development related to age/language
          2) Kohlberg - Refined Piaget: Stages of cognitive reasoning
          3) Gilligan - "In a different voice" / Men & women differ

ANTICIPATORY SOCIALIZATION:   PROCESS OF SOCIALIZATION (How INDIVIDUALS
REHEARSE FOR  FUTURE SOCIAL  ROLES AND (COWBOYS, PLAYING HOUSE, ETC)

RESOCIALIZATION:   DISCARDING FORMER  BEHAVIORS AND APPROPRIATE NEW ONES 
(GOING INTO ARMY AFTER SCHOOL; COLLEGE FROM HOME).

STAGES OF SOCIALIZATION:
     1.  INFANT SOCIALIZATION
     2.  CHILDHOOD SOZIALIZATION
     3.  ADOLESCENT SOCIALIZATION
     4.  POST-ADOLESCENT SOCIALIZATION  (WORK,  SCHOOL
         (MARRIAGE, GROWING OLD)

AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION:
     1) Family
     2) School
     3) Media
     4) Peers
     5) Workplace

RITE OF  PASSAGE---"TRIALS" OR  HARDSHIPS (EG,   FRAT/SORORITY PLEDGING, 
HAZING;  FINAL EXAMS,  ETC)---THESE ARE RITUALS AND MARK PASSAGE FROM ONE 
STATUS TO ANOTHER.

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