SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Total Institution, George Herbert Mead, Lawrence Kohlberg

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Karyn Freedman

Document Summary

Important contributions to our understanding of socialization: sigmund freud"s model of the human personality has three parts: Id: innate, pleasure-seeking human drives: superego: the demands of society in the form of internalized values and norms, ego: our efforts to balance innate, pleasure-seeking drives and the demands of society. Jean piaget believed that human development involves both biological maturation and gaining social experience. Agents of socialization: the family is usually the first setting of socialization, family has the greatest impact on attitudes and behaviour, a family"s social position, including race and social class, shapes a child"s personality. Socialization and the life course: the concept of childhood is grounded not in biology but in culture. In high-income countries, childhood is extended: the emotional and social turmoil of adolescence results from cultural inconsistency in defining people who are not children but not yet adults. Adolescence varies by social class: adulthood is the stage of life when most accomplishments take place.