SOC101 Lecture 4: ONLINE Week 4 / Module 4 - Socialization
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Socialization defined socialization: process through which culture and social organization come to affect the individual. Constant, takes place at every stage in life and present at all time. Occurs throughout the life cycle as people anticipate and. Difference from primary socialization: more choice or more limits (based on previous experience) Acquisition of values and orientations found in statuses and groups in which one is not yet engaged but one is likely to enter. Effectiveness depends on similarity to previous experience and ambiguity of the new situation (eg. university classes) Stated aims are often less important than their latent messages (self-presentation, patterns of social relations) Socialization into a situation so unique that previous experience cannot be used to anticipate appropriate behaviour. Some institutions are mandated to resocialize deviants (eg. prison) Some rules/regulations are taught so insidiously that they are taken on as one"s own. Can acquire a rule/value to the extent that we use it to measure our own self worth.
