SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Group, Erving Goffman, Resocialization
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The lifelong process through which we learn the values,roles and expected patterns of behaviour appropriate to particular social groups in society. How individuals learn to live together in a ordered way to produce a coherent society. The process of socialisation will not change, even if the values themselves do. Individuals learn to live together in an ordered way to produce society . Society then influences how people"s character and behaviour develops. Her lack of socialisation changed the way her brain worked. Subtle ( sleeping beauty; a woman"s" worth is achieved after approval from a man) Most often indirect and accidental, and conveyed subtly. Rules that guide appropriate behavior in a given situation ( behavioural expectations) May not realize the social norms that construct our society until they are broken. A father"s role would include guidance, nurturing ,care but what would a boss"s. A set of norms attached to that status. We perform a series of roles over a lifetime.