HREQ 1800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Peer Pressure, Jacques Lacan, John Bowlby

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1800
• Professor: Livy Visano

Document Summary

Socialization refers to the ways in which people learn to conform to their society"s norms, values and roles. Primary socialization refers to the ways in which the newborn individual is molded into a social being. Secondary socialization occurs in later childhood and adolescence as a child is in uenced by adults and peers outside his or her family. Adult socialization occurs when a person learns the norms associated with speci c adult statuses. Child development that occurs from birth to adulthood was largely ignored throughout must of history. But we are interested in child development and the in uences on development. Children stay connected with family (bc of self con dence of child, role of parents ) We learn to conform to the societal rules (primary socialization) Identity is dynamic, reactive and develops in time, need to learn how to contextualize it. The social construction of the self: sociological approaches.