Transcript Socialization

Socialization
Socialization
 Describe yourself
 Name
 Physical attributes
 Ethnicity
 Likes/Dislikes
 Strengths
 Values
 Hobbies
 Personal history
 Now, imagine you
were switched at birth
with another baby in
the maternity ward and
went home with the
‘wrong’ family and
were raised by them.
 How might you be
different?
What is social behaviour?
 The interaction among members of the same group
responding to external and internal stimuli
 For example, if you were dining out in a restaurant
 Internal stimuli would be the behaviours you have
learnt from your family, friends, etc.
 External stimuli would be the diners around you, the
observed behaviours of how they act in a restaurant
What influences behaviour?
 Social influence: the effect of other people on a
person’s thoughts and actions
 Can be indirect or direct
 Direct: Joining friends at a thai restaurant when you
want to eat McDonald’s
 Indirect: Not eating at McDonald’s because you think
your friends wouldn’t like it if you did
Socialization
 Socialization – lifelong process through which we
learn all the knowledge, skills and attitudes we need to
survive and prosper
 Key process in the development of the individual
 Necessary for the continuation of society
 Affects virtually every aspect of our lives
 Basic skills, socially accepted goals, roles and
behaviours
Categories of Socialization
 Primary socialization: the process of learning the
basic skills needed to survive in society
 Secondary socialization: the process of learning how
to behave appropriately in group situations
 Anticipatory socialization: the process of learning
how to plan the way to behave in new situations
Components of
Socialization
We learn:
Language
How to eat
To practice hygiene
Gender roles
To deal with emotions
Develop the ability to
think ahead and act
according
Anticipatory Socialization
Secondary Socialization
Primary
Socialization
Lean how to function
in groups (schools)
How to follow the
behaviours society
expects of us while
acting in group
situations
Categories of
Socialization cont.
 Resocialization:
Deliberate attempt by
society to replace
aspects of an
individual’s
socialization with new
learnings
In prisons, society tries to change inmates’ learned behaviour to more
appropriate, law-abiding ones
Abnormal Socialization
 Children should be raised in a nurturing environment
that promotes physical, emotional and intellectual
development.
 Children need attention, encouragement, and
stimulation of a caregiver to develop healthy selfesteem and become productive, well-adjusted
members of society
 Some children may be neglected or outright
abandoned, affecting their socialization
Child Abuse
 In cases of child abuse, children do not learn normal
and healthy behaviours
Emotional
Abuse
May include
repeatedly
criticizing child or
subjecting child
to unhappy or
disturbing
environment
Physical
Abuse
Involves assault
or inflicting of
physical harm
Neglect
The failure to provide
physical or emotional
necessities of life
Sexual Abuse
Occurs when an
a child is touched
sexually or
inappropriately
Feral Children
 Ferals are chilren deserted at a young age and raised
by animals
 Sociologists who have studies feral children discovered
that they appropriate the behaviours of the species that
raised them and can perfectly imitate their gestures
and sounds
 By studying feral children, sociologists concluded that
children need to learn social skills at a young age
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93HymGXC_w
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Isolated Children
 Isolates are children raised in near isolation within human
households.
 Most famous case is a girl named Genie who was found in
the 1970s when she was 13 years old, she couldn’t speak,
and could barely walk or eat. Despite intensive
rehabilitation Genie was never able to make a full recovery
 In July 2005 a case emerged in Florida of a 3 year old girl.
She still does not speak but is learning to listen and
understand simple commands