SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: George Herbert Mead, Social Forces, Boarding School

• School: WLU
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SY101
• Professor: Greg Bird

Document Summary

Socialization: process by which we learn to become members of society both by internalizing the norms and values of society, and also by learning to perform social roles role: social expectations attached to different social positions. Individual personalities develops through interaction with others. Socialization: objecti cation process (take the role of the other) Learn roles by observing how others respond to us. Individual personalities develop by interacting with others. Personalities only develop by interacting with others. Ones image of themselves develops in communication with other people. The process of being socialized is the process of being objecti ed. Objecti cation process; we learn to take the role of others and objectify ourselves. We learn our gender roles by observing how others perform their gender and who they respond to our gender. Me - objective side of an individual (socialized) I - subjective side of an individual (active) Creative side that distinguishes us from each other (not pure followers)