SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Norbert Elias, Talcott Parsons, Michel Foucault

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100
• Professor: Richard Westerman

Document Summary

Lecture 10 socialization (ii): learning the rules. The rise of modern manners: gradual social process, whereby behaviour/actions previously considered acceptable or neutral gradually become unacceptable. (cid:1684)correct(cid:1685) behaviour gradually comes to be seen as (cid:1684)civilized(cid:1685) or marking status. Norbert elias (1898-1990) describes the emergence of modern manners between c. 1300 and 1600, based on data such as sales of cutlery or manuals of manners. Socialization: various life-long processes of learning undergone by individuals that develop them in to adults capable of participation in social environment, particularly important for helping us fit in to our own society by teaching norms, values etc. By ensuring everyone shares cultural values and ways of behaving, socialisation ensures smooth social interactions. The stages of socialisation: the first elements of socialisation that the child undergoes, teaching basic habits that become unconsciously ingrained, socialisation consists of a series of different processes at different stages of life.