CHAPTER 4 & 5

Socialization, Roles, and Statuses

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 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 Student-teacher Coach Brother Son Grandson

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This is my STATUS SET!

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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

RightsObligations

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

MechanizationUrbanizationTechnology

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, McDonalds, shopping centers, etc. . .