SOCL 2001 Lecture : Sociology 2001 Notes
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Family: intense, lifelong influence, establish initial motivations, values, and beliefs, where we get our basic sense of self. Religion: influences religious and non-religious, moral foundation, belies influence speech, clothing, and manners, sense of identity and belonging comes from religion. Day care: more daycare time, weakens bond with mother, less cooperative, meaner, less daycare time, increased academic performance, fewer behavioral problems. Workplace: anticipatory socialization: learning to play a future activity, gradually identify with role and learn what"d be expected of us. Resocialization: learning new norms, attitudes, values, and behaviors to match a new life situation, ex: transition from high school to college, divorce, passing of a loved one, having children, occurs when learning something contrary to prior life experiences. Total institutions: cut off from rest of society; officials have almost total control of others, ex: prison, insane asylum, experienced by few, degradation ceremony- strip away the individual, only current status matters. Test: 40 multiple choice questions, know important names.
