Socialization
What does culture?
What
does culture provide for us?
1.
Culture provides values,
general ideas
2.
Culture provides norms
·
less general than values
·
enforced by positive and negative sanctions
3.
Laws are written norms established by an elite
4.
Culture provides roles
5.
Culture provides meaning
Learning Values and Norms
General
Values
Norms
Laws
Specific
Genie, the Girl without Socialization
- deficiencies
in early childhood socialization cannot made up later.
Nature
versus nurture arguments in the socialization process
|
Social
↓
-------
Biological
↓
Individual
|
Social
Biological
↓
↓
Individual
|
Social
→Biological
←
↓
↓
Individual
|
Agents of Socialization
- Family
- Peers
- Schools
- Mass media
- Church (in some cultures)
Why do we have agents of socialization?
- Give an example using the Conflict Perspective:
- Give an example using the Functionalist Perspective:
Development through the Life Course
Assignments:
Book: Chapter 4
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