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Socialization: Getting Inside

Socialization: Getting Inside. “SOCIETY MAKES US HUMAN” “SOCIALIZATION: THE PROCESS BY WHICH PEOPLE LEARN THE CHARACTRISTICS OF THE GROUP-THE ATTITUDES, VALUES,AND ACTIONS THOUGHT APPROPRIATE FOR THEM” [HENSLIN p 68]. A) The Process of Socialization [Internalization].

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Socialization: Getting Inside

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  1. Socialization: Getting Inside • “SOCIETY MAKES US HUMAN” • “SOCIALIZATION: THE PROCESS BY WHICH PEOPLE LEARN THE CHARACTRISTICS OF THE GROUP-THE ATTITUDES, VALUES,AND ACTIONS THOUGHT APPROPRIATE FOR THEM” [HENSLIN p 68]

  2. A) The Process of Socialization [Internalization]

  3. 1. Why we need socialization • a. Incomplete • b. Safety and comfort • c. Working consensus • d. Social control • e. Fill social roles

  4. 2. Socialization Types • a. Initial: childhood socialization • b. Resocialization (important new norms & values) • c. Adult socialization • d. Retro-socialization

  5. 3. Where does it occur? • a. Nursery of Human Nature: Cooley's "The Primary Group” • b. “Springs of Life” [Henslin p 155] • c. Primary Group as Ideal Type • d. Characteristics of Primary Group: • 1. Physical • 2. Content

  6. 1. Physical • a. Physical proximity • b. Smallness, numerical • c. Duration, temporal

  7. 2. Content • a. Identity of ends • b. End in itself • c. Relationship is personal-- non-transferable • d. Relationship is inclusive or diffuse • e. Relationship is spontaneous

  8. 4. Identity is: • a. Created • b. Sustained • c. Transformed in interaction with others

  9. B. The Social Self: G.H. Mead

  10. 1. Stages of Self Development: Mead and Caldwell • CALDWELL: • a. At Birth Stage • b. Babbling and Cooing Stage, 3-9 months

  11. MEAD • a. Imitative Stage, 6-18 month range up to 3 years • b. Play Stage, 3-6 years • c. Game Stage, 6-7 years [Henslin p 69]

  12. 2. The expanding world: Significant to Generalized Other

  13. GENERALIZED OTHER SELF SIGNIGICANT OTHERS GENERA-IZED OTHER

  14. 3. Mead and Mills

  15. 4. Mead's Self: Process • a. The me: object • b. The I: subject • c. The self

  16. 5. Reconsider: Cooley's "The Looking Glass Self" • a. Imagine:”We imagine how we appear to those around us” • b. Evaluate:”We interpret other’s reactions” • c. Pride and Mortification:”We develop a self-concept” [Henslin p 68]

  17. 6. Socialization as social control

  18. 7. Becker: Object of value "Object of Primary Value in a World of Meaningful Action"

  19. C. Agents of Socialization (Culture transmitters) • 1. Family • 2. Peers • 3. Educational Institutions • 4. Occupational Settings

  20. D. Family Agent: College Sorority

  21. 1. Scott's goal: P. 515 • Control of marital choice by ascriptive groups • Adapted to conditions of mass higher education • Motives persist • Ancient institutions of Kinship and novel forms of industrial social organization

  22. 2. Latent and Manifest function,p 523 • Encourage timely marriage • In conformity with norms of Endogamy or Hypergamy

  23. Risks of exogamous or hypogamous love • Restricting heterosexual encounters • Conditions too complex as a “Latent function” ever to be made “Manifest”

  24. 3. Manifest function,p 524 • Family affiliation and home • Sympathetic interest, wise supervision, disinterested advice • Corner stone of social structure the family

  25. Cut loose, drift far from home moorings • Dorms destroy right ideals • Freedom comes from community living • Weaned from home and friends

  26. 4. Latent function,P.524 • Love with wrong kind • Assure marriage to right kind • Arrange meaningful encounters with lots of right kind

  27. Marriage not put off • Maintain norms of ascriptive groups • Critical point: Move from family of orientation to family of procreation

  28. 5. Factors in Marital Choice by Ascriptive Groups, P.516

  29. a. Kinship and Higher Education • 1. Conflict: Family and Higher Education

  30. b. Endogamy • 1. Exogamy and Endogamy • 2. Hypergamy and Hypogamy • 3. Brahmin problem • 4. Educational brahmins • 5. Class specific vanity, footnote #19, P.520

  31. c. Love: Love Story • [Inventing the Abbotts, Fools Rush In, Sabrina, or Titanic]

  32. d. Heterogeneity of Public Education

  33. e. A Timely Marriage

  34. f. Summary

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