SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Solitary Confinement, Feral Child, Boarding School
23 Apr 2018
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Wearing hats use to be seen as sign of respect but are now seen as a sign of disrespect: behaviour changes over time in any one place, ex. Examples of different social values or rules for behaviour (norms) that people are socialised into in different cultures: food culture, meal times, road rules. 1: functionalists argue socialization allows each individual to become well functioning members of society. Informal agents: the social institutions that help turn people into functioning members of society, family, education, peer group, mass media. Subtle socialization children"s stories like sleeping beauty portray women have meaningful lives in the world by being brought alive by relationships with men. See figure: circles of social control: used by functionalists, mechanism used to encourage people to follow their world. Other examples of total institutions: prison, military training, boarding school, religious training, residential schools in canada.
