SOCI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Cultural Capital, Erving Goffman, Social Capital

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

Document Summary

They can only mimic others, not having a sense of self for themselves. Tend to take on the roles of specific people. Caregivers, parents, and peers directly and indirectly convey the message that boys and girls are profoundly and permanently different: game stage: The individuals learns to be able to take on multiple roles. The processes of gender socialization at each stage of development are very subtle and complex. Freud, the development of personality, and civilizing the id . Emphasis on symbolic meanings was crucial to fleshing out how we play our particular scripts and how we learn specific ways to embody them. Prominent social theorists have attempted to explain how we develop a sense of self, the capacity to reason, and emotions. Their analyses suggest that our fundamental sense of self what we desire, who we love, how we experience sadness is rooted in socialization.