Sociology 1021E Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Environment, Crystallization, Cultural Learning
24 May 2017
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Socialization: the process by which people learn to function in social life and become aware of themselves as they interact with others: fundamentally an evolutionary process. In any environment, a person acts on the basis of his or her existing personal characteristics and interests. The environment responds to the person"s action more or less cooperatively. Role: the behaviour expected of a person occupying a particular position in society. Self: consists of your ideas and attitudes about who you are. Ego: helps person to achieve satisfactions amid constraints. Unconscious: part of the self that contains repressed memories we are not normally aware of (result of having to deny our id immediate gratifications. Oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital: jean piaget. Morality of cooperation: rules are products of negotiation. Moral autonomy: individuals can operate independent of authority: kohlberg. Showed how children"s moral reasoning (their ability to judge right from wrong) also passes through development stage.
