SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Impression Formation, Impression Management, Erving Goffman
8 Apr 2016
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Socializaion refers to the ways in which individuals atempt to align their own thoughts, feelings, and behaviour to it into society or groups the process in which individuals incorporate society into their senses of self. To interact with others, we must learn the social rules. The norms of a society/culture which tell us those behaviour"s are acceptable and which are unacceptable. Children deprived of human contact have limited intellectual capaciies, have no or limited experience with love or human interacion, and do not grasp language. Sociologists believe that social reality is constructed by people every ime they interact with others. Outcomes of socializaion include: gender role, moral development, orientaion towards social class. In adulthood, socializaion is concerned with equipping the individual to funcion efecively in adult roles: Role acquisiion: the major roles we acquire as adults include spouse, parent, work roles, grandparent, and reiree, midlife (40-60) involves several role transiions:
