SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: George Herbert Mead, Edward Thorndike, Dennis Wrong
2 Oct 2017
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4 socialization: socialization is a learning process; one that involves leaning how to be a social person in a given society. Primary socialization: earliest socialization that generally occurs in an individual"s childhood. Secondary socialization: socialization that generally occurs later in life. Determinism: the degree to which an individual"s behavior, attitudes, and other personal" characteristics are determined, or caused, by a specific factor. Agency: personal choice above and beyond the call of nature or nurture: biological determinism says that the greater part of what we are is determined by our genes. Id: a part of the unconscious mind proposed by freud which was thought to be motivated by two distinctive drives eros and thanatos. Eros: the life drive" that involved pleasure particularly, but not exclusively, sexual pleasure. Thanatos: death drive; an instinct of aggression and violence. Superego: takes in the normative message of right and wrong that your parents, family, friends, teachers, and other socializing agents give, and internalizes them.
