SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Personal Identity, Sandwich Generation

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 102
• Professor: Catherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

Study total institutions bc they provide insight into the complexities and contradictions of social control and underscore the enormous impact of socialization. Degradation ceremony: attempt to remake the self by stripping aware the individuals" current identity and stamping a new one in its place. Personal identity kit: item such as jewellery, hairstyle, clothing, other body decorations used to express individuality. In sum resocialization is an important process some are voluntary and some are involuntary. Adolescence and youth known to be rebellious and the whatever generation youth culture is now much more likely to reflected in music, tv, movies, computer technology. Young adulthood as a result of longer educational commitments, along with decreased employment opportunities, many youth are postponing life decisions boomerang kids: move out of their parents house, just to move back in at a later date. When you become parents and or married part of the sandwich generation.