SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: George Herbert Mead, Symbolic Interactionism, Hidden Curriculum
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Socialization is the process how people learn their culture by: entering, disengaging from a succession of roles, becoming aware of themselves as they interact with others. Role: expected behaviour of a person with a certain position in society. Children in nursing home were cared by their mothers where they saw other babies playing/receiving care. As well as mothers, doctors, and nurses cleaning, talking, serving food/providing medical treatment. By the time they were 2/3 years old all children in nursing home talked/walked. 45 orphanage babies were taken care of by 6 nurses less contact with people. Caregivers in orphanage hung sheet from cribs to prevent infants from interacting/seeing activities. 9 to 12 months orphans more susceptible to infections/death. Fewer than 8% talked, walked by 2-3 years of age. Agents of socialization: family, peers, schools, mass media. In these settings we learn how to control impulses, think of self/others, value certain ideals, perform various roles.
