SOCI 211 Lecture Notes - Hidden Curriculum, Lev Vygotsky, Erving Goffman
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Entering and disengaging from a succession of roles: becoming aware of themselves as they interact w/ others. Socialization is the process by which people learn their culture. Rene spitz: compared children who were being raised in an orphanage w/ children being raised in a prison nursing home. Orphans had much less contact w/ people (social deprivation) Thus, they were more susceptible to infections and had a higher death rate. By the time they were 2 or 3 yrs old, children from the nursing home were walking and talking compared to the 8% of the orphans. Thus, w/o childhood socialization, most of our human potential remains undeveloped. The formation of a sense of self continues in adolescence (rapid self-development) Social interaction soon enables infants to being developing a sense of self which is a set of ideas and attitudes about who they are as independent beings. The part of the self that demands immediate gratification is the id.