FRHD 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Margaret Mead, Individualism, Collectivism
6 Mar 2017
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Ex, girls in samoa would prove themselves through work instead of virginity. 5 years after she died, freeman published a book that criticized her work. Predominant beliefs in a culture about right and wrong. Symbolic inheritance understandings that are both implicit and explicit about what is important. Notion that in our culture postsecondary school is very important. Role preparation - occupational roles, gender roles, marriage. We socialize children to believe in the same things and act in the same way. Women identify with more relationship roles (mother, friend) , males identify with more groups (canadian, engineer) Cultures define the range and focus of acceptable personal variation. Cultures differ in the degree of restrictiveness they impose. Narrow socialization is to collectivism as broad socialization is to individualism. Individualism-collectivism and broad-narrow are not meant to imply moral evaluations. Family - influence of family diminishes in adolescence.
