SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Herbert Blumer, Ethnomethodology, Symbolic Interactionism
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Socialization is the lifelong process by which people: Learn their culture: including norms, values, and roles (role is the behavior expected of a person occupying a particular position in society) Become aware of themselves as they interact with others. Unleash one"s potential, ex: becoming fully human. The self: a sense of individual identity that allows us to understand who we are in relation to others and to differentiate ourselves from them. Formation of sense of self begins in childhood and continues in adolescence. Crystallization of self identity during adolescence is just one episode in lifelong process of socialization. Freud: only social interaction allows the self to emerge. Cooley: looking glass self, how people perceive us. Mead: i (individual impulses, doing the reflecting, self as subject) and me (generalized other, self as object, being reflected on) A process through which individuals learn to become feminine or masculine according to expectation current in their society.
