SY101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Crystallization, Bodybuilding, Plastic Surgery

• School: WLU
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SY101
• Professor: Greg Bird

Document Summary

Socialization (55): process learn their culture: entering into and disengaging from a succession of roles, becoming aware of themselves by interacting with others. Role (55): expected behaviour of a person in a particular position in society. Spitz without childhood socialization human potential is undeveloped. Agents of socialization families/peer groups/media/schools these settings: control our impulses, members of different groups, value certain ideals, perform various roles. Self: ideas and attitudes one is an independent being. Balance needs with the realities of the life. Only social interaction allow self to emerge. Looking glass self: cooley"s description how we feel about ourselves is how others evaluate us. We interact we look at gesture/reaction and judge how others evaluate us. Subject/impulsive aspect of self present from birth: called the i. Social component of self: called the me. Freud denial impulses as the mechanism that generates the self"s objective side. All communication depends on taking the role of the other.