SOCI 1101 Lecture 5: SOCI Notes
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Identity: the most essential and personal characteristics that make a person. The self: traits, behaviors, and attitudes that distinguish one person from the next. Reflexive behavior is when people direct actions towards themselves. The looking glass self is a sense of who we are, defined by incorporating the reflected appraisals of others (charles horton cooley) Agents of socialization: institutions and groups that influence how someone is as they grow up and the outcome when they grow up: teammates on a sports team, family members, religious group, classmates. Anticipatory socialization: acquiring values that you will need for statuses you may hold later in life. Eugenics: controlled mating to produce better citizens and to ensure that the defective genes of troublesome individuals would not be passed on to future generations. Role taking: the ability to use other"s perspectives and expectations in formulating one"s own behavior (george herbert mead).
