SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Blue-Collar Worker

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Stage 2 : balancing family & work commitments: the central challenge of this stage is to establish oneself as a stable worker, partner/spouse. & parent: during this stage, men tend to become increasingly caught up in their careers, many women become increasingly committed to their families. Stage 4 : coping with loss: central challenge is to cope with a sense of losses, loss of occupational role through retirement, loss of significant relationships through death, eventually loss of health, energy & independence. The nature & genesis of self: the self is the source of action when we plan, observe & control our own behaviour, the self is the object of action when we think about who we are. Cooley : looking-glass self: the most important looking glasses for children are their parents & family & later their playmates, these are a child"s sig(cid:374)ifica(cid:374)t others those whose reflected views have greatest influence on the child"s self-concepts.