SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: George Herbert Mead, Sigmund Freud, Symbolic Interactionism
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Self: a sense of individual identity that allows us to understand who we are in relation to others and to differentiate ourselves from them. Allows us to learn how to react in certain situations in an expected way. Constrained by social norms and values (shared ideas about right and wrong), but we are also free to behave how we like. Socialization: the process of social interaction which integrates oneself into their world. Socialization is the vital link between individuals and society. No sense of ourselves as a distinct and autonomous human being without interaction with another. Socialization makes social interaction, social organization and social order possible. People in a particular society learn the norms, values and lifestyles specific to their social environment. In every society, individuals differ in significant ways from another, and these to an extent are products of socialization. Each person is influenced by distinctive subcultures of family, friends, class, race, religion and gender.
