Socialization Roles and Statuses CHAPTER 4 5 Socialization

Socialization, Roles, and Statuses CHAPTER 4 & 5

Socialization �The cultural process of learning to participate in a group �Hard to see and define – babies and young children

Harry Harlow and Social Isolation �Video

Social Isolation – Anna and Isabelle �Read on page 113 – 114 �Nature vs. Nurture

Symbolic Interactionism �Self-concept – an image of yourself as having an identity separate from other people �Looking-glass self – an image of yourself based on what you believe others think of you 1. 2. 3. �Activity

Distorted Images �“If we incorrectly believe that a teacher, or a date, or our parents dislike us, the consequences to us are just as real as if it were true. ” pg 117 �The dating game

George Herbert Mead �Significant others - those people whose reactions are most important to your self-concept �Name some significant others…

Role taking �Assuming the viewpoint of another person and using that viewpoint to shape the self-concept Imitation stage Play stage Game stage

The Self �“me” – the part of the self formed through socialization �“I” – The part of the self that accounts for unlearned, spontaneous acts �You normally take the “me” into account before the “I”

Agents of Socialization �The Family �Peer Groups �Mass Media �The Hidden Curriculum – the informal and unofficial aspects of culture that children are taught in school �What are some things you can think of you learn in school that are not reading, writing, arithmetic?

Desocialization and Resocialization �Total institutions – places in which people are separated from the rest of the society and controlled by officials in charge �Desocialization and resocialization. . . �What are some examples of ^^^

Anticipatory Socialization �What you are doing for college right meow. �What I am doing right meow.

Social Structure �The underlying patterns of relationships in a group

Status �A position a person occupies within a social structure I am a: � Teacher � Student-teacher � Coach � Brother � Son � Grandson

Status �Ascribed status – position is neither earned nor chosen, but assigned �Achieved status – a position that is earned or chosen �Video I am a: � Teacher > � Student-teacher � Coach � Brother � Son � Grandson Ø This is my STATUS SET! >

Status �Master status – a position that strongly affects most other aspects of a person’s life �Your boss, me, your parents �Most cases of status take into account age, gender, race, and ethnicity

Stanford Prison Experiment �Read on page 144

Roles �An expected behavior associated with a particular status �Rights �Obligations

Role Performance & Social Interaction �The actual behavior of an individual in a role �The process of influencing each other as people relate �Role performance usually involves social interaction

Play �Sociologists often sometimes refers to our roles, status, and social interaction as a play.

Role conflict �Performance of one role in one status interferes with anther role in anther status �Role strain – condition in which the roles of a SINGLE status are inconsistent or conflicting �What are some roles that conflict for you? What are some straining roles you have? �Activity

Hunting and Gathering

Horticulture Society

Pastoral and Agricultural Society

Industrial Society �Mechanization �Urbanization �Technology

Industrial Society �This changed the family!! Along with the Oil Embargo of 1973, the internet, among many other things. �More peer oriented

Gemeinschaft �Preindustrial society based on tradition, kinship, and close social ties �“community”

Gesellschaft �Industrial society characterized by weak family ties, competition, and impersonal social relationships �This changed after the ID, Oil Embargo of 1973, among many other things.

Social Solidarity �The degree to which a society is unified �How unified do you think this society is? ? Think on the lines of genuinely and technology.

Mechanical Solidarity �A type of social unity achieved by people doing the same type of work and holding similar values �Beliefs, norms, tradition, conformity �Coworkers, friends, family, parish (non-religious)

Organic Solidarity �A type of social unity in which members’ interdependence is based on specialized functions(utility) and statuses �I NEED a mechanic, Mc. Donalds, shopping centers, etc. . .