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    The document summarizes several theories of socialization. It discusses how socialization is the process through which children learn the skills needed to function in society. It describes theories by Cooley, Mead and others that explain how children develop self-awareness and sense of identity through social interaction, play, and learning social roles and norms from various socialization agents like family, school, peers and media.

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    Socialization

    Socialization
    Is the process of social interaction that teaches
    the child the intellectual, physical and social
    skills needed to function as a member of
    society
    The Personality as
    a Social Product
    • We are all the product of nature and nurture.
    • We develop our sense of self (our personality)
    in interaction with other people.
    • Newly born infants have no sense of self-
    awareness
    Note: Personality is the patterns and ways of thinking
    that are distinctive for each individual
    HUMANS to develop NORMAL need
    • Social attachment – we must learn to have
    feelings for others and must see evidence that
    other people care
    – Feral children
    • Affiliation – meaningful interaction with
    others
    – Infants in institutions
    THE CONCEPT OF SELF
    • Status- culturally and socially defined position
    • Social identity –the total of all statuses that
    define an individual
    • The self develops when the individual
    becomes aware of his/her feelings, thoughts,
    behavious as separate and distinct from those
    of others
    THE Concept of SELF
    • Awareness of the existence, appearance, and
    bounderies of your own body
    • Ability to refer to your own being by using language
    and other symbols
    • Knowlege of ones own personal history
    • Ability to organize ones own knowledge and beliefs
    • Ability to organize one’s own experiences
    • Ability to take a step back and look at one’s being as
    others do (evaluate the impressions one is creating
    and to understand the feelings and attitudes that one
    stimulates in others)
    Theories of Socialization
    Charles H. Cooley
    • Cooley believed that children’s conceptions of
    themselves arise through interaction with
    other people.
    • He used the metaphor of a looking glass self.
    • Through interaction children define
    themselves according to how they interpret
    how people think of them.
    Looking Glass Self
    Stage 1. We imagine how our actions appear to
    others
    Stage 2. We imagine how other people judge
    these actions
    Stage 3. We make some sort of judgement
    based on the presumed judgement of others
    George Herbert Mead
    1. Preparatory stage – child imitating the behavior of
    others (prepares the child for learning social- role
    expectations)
    2. Play stage - child pretends to be a variety of adult roles
    (taking the role of the other). Child also develops language.
    3. Game stage children play at games with rigid rules.
    – They begin to understand the structure of the entire game
    with the expectations for everyone involved.
    – This understanding of the entire situation is called “the
    generalized other”.
    George Herbert Mead
    • Generalized others – are the viewpoints,
    attitudes, and expectations of society as a
    whole, or of community of people whom we
    are aware of and who are important to us
    • Significant others – individuals who are most
    important in our development
    George Herbert Mead
    Parts of the Self
    I – the portion of the self who wishes to have
    free expression, to be active and spontaneous
    Me – the portion of the self is made of things
    learned
    Society’s Socialization Agents
    • Personality of the child is, to a large degree,
    socially created and sustained.
    • Through the process of socialization, the child
    internalizes the norms and values of a society.
    Society’s Socialization Agents
    Family
    The School
    The Peer Groups
    The Mass Media
    References
    • Tischler, Henry. Introduction to Sociology.
    (1998). 5th Edition. The Harcourt College
    Publishers. Indiana University- Purdue
    University Fort Wayne. USA

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