Warm Up:What do we need to be happy, well adjusted individuals?

Friday, 2/20

Objective: I will be able to discuss the role

socialization plays in human development by creating a hypothesis to test the relationship between socialization and TV watching.

Language Objective: I will use a sentence stem to explain

why sociologists cannot experiment with humans.

Socialization The cultural process of learning to

participate in group life. Interactions with parents, family, and later,

people outside of the home socializes each human being.

Sociologists cannot experiment with humans, so: They study monkeys isolated from other

monkeys Children in orphanages

Lack of Socialization Genie Wiley - Feral Children

Perspectives Functionalist stress that groups work

together to create a stable society. Schools serves such a purpose.

The Conflict Perspective sees socialization as perpetuating the status quo.

The Symbolic Interaction Perspective challenged the idea that human nature is biologically determined.

Symbolic Interaction & Socialization Self Concept – the image you have of

yourself. Others serve as the mirror for the development of the self (looking-glass self).

Role Taking – allows us to see ourselves through the eyes of others. Three stages

Imitation Play Game

Generalized other – an integrated conception of the norms, values, and beliefs of one’s society.

TOD Sociologists cannot experiment with

humans because ______________ .

Monday, 2/24 Warm Up – Why are some parents good

parents? Why are some parents bad parents?

Objective: I will be able to discuss the role

socialization plays in human development by creating a hypothesis to test the relationship between socialization and TV watching.

Language Objective: I will be able to write using complete

sentences by restating the question in my answer.

Self Composed of two parts

Me created through socialization Accounts for predictability and conformity Considers the consequences of the self.

I Creative part of the self Unpredictable & spontaneous First reaction of the self comes from the I.

Agents of Socialization Family Schools

Hidden curriculum – the informal and formal goals of school

Discipline, order, cooperation, & conformity

Peer Groups (individuals of the same age and interests)

Mass Media

Processes of Socialization Total Institutions

Mental hospitals, cults, prisons Military

Desocialization The process by which people give up old

norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors. Destruction of old self-concepts or

personal identity.

Resocialization Once the self has been broken down

by desocialization, resocialization begins.

People accept new norms, values, attitudes and behaviors.

Rewards and punishments attempt to create the new “identity”.

Also occurs as a child becomes a teenager, when a teenager gets a job, and as the elderly move in retirement.

Anticipatory Socialization Voluntary change Usually occurs in people moving from

one stage of life to another. Preteens observe teens (their reference

group). College seniors talk to people working in

their intended job field.

Task Analysis of TV Viewing Habits