SOC 3223 Lecture 23: Social Psychology feb 23rd
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Socialization throughout the life course: symbolic interactionist approaches to primary socialization, mead and the development of the self, language and primary socialization, symbolic interactionists regard the acquisition of language as central to the primary socialization process. Language mediates the capacity for role taking by allowing us to synthesize individual as well as broader societal expectations. Language allows for complex thought and the ability to regulate behavior, because it underlies our ability to see ourselves thought he lens of another person and imagine others responses to our behaviors. Language and primary socialization: people often report that their first concrete memories are around the ages of three or four; this usually coincides with the development of a semi-proficient use of a spoken language (bruce, dolan, and. Phillips-grant 2000: sapir-whorf hypothesis: available linguistic categories (or words in a language) shape people"s per(cid:272)eptions of their environments.
