SOCI 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Resocialization, Moral Development, Total Institution
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Peers/friends, education, mass media, religion getting more powerful. Understanding of social norms and expectations, accept beliefs and be aware of values. Importance of social comfort over food in harlow experiment. Socialization is critical to children development but also lifelong process. Socialization: process through which people are thought to be proficient members of society. Primary socialization: basic social learning that occurs during first few years of life. Quick adaptation and acquisition basic knowledge of social values, norms, perspectives. Secondary socialization: acquiring more complex and subtle knowledge for social interactions. Self-socialization: choosing our socializing influences, demonstrates some agency. Resocialization: process of trying to break-down effects of past socialization and socialize in different way (i. e. education, military) virtual interactions also play role. Erikson: personality continuously changes, never truly finished, gives credit to social aspects. Piaget: focus on role of social interaction in development of children, negotiation between world that exist in mind and one experienced socially.