Transcript Chapter 5 Socializing the Individualx

OBJECTIVES AND AGENDA 10/24, 25
 OBJECTIVES
 List the differences between the arguments of John Locke and
Charles Cooley
 Analyze the “agents of socialization
 Outline the “stage” of adolescence.
 AGENDA
 Warm-up—define and TAKE NOTES on the following words and
write which sociologist suggested it.
 Tabula Rasa
 The Looking-Glass Self
 The “I” and “Me”
 Test corrections on Unit I test—15-20 minutes
 If you finish, read, outline and take notes—Ch. 5 Sec. 1—15 minutes
 If time---agents of socialization
 Watch the video and answer the following questions.
 Describe how the twins were similar?
 What does the video say about twins and Nature vs. Nurture?
 Twins
OBJECTIVES AND AGENDA 10/26 ,27
 OBJECTIVES
 Distinguish between the three major theories on socialization
 How does isolation effect socialization
 AGENDA
 Warm-up--- Warm-up—Read the story of Anna and Isabel on Page 102---Write the facts of
both---what is the one difference that could have been the reason one lived and one died?
 Finish Tabula Rasa, Looking Glass Self, Mead’s Role Taking
 Nature vs. Nurture
 Watch the video and answer the following questions.
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Describe how the twins were similar?
What does the video say about twins and Nature vs. Nurture?
 Twins
 Agents of Socialization ---On your own or with a close friend---list the agents of
socialization AND 5 examples from YOUR life for each. Write on paper to be turned in.
 Notes on isolation
 Isolation and personality—Video on Genie
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1. Write notes on the video
 What are the facts of the case?
 What effects did total isolation have on Genie?
 Was she able to recover? Explain
Isabelle and Anne---What is the major difference between Isabelle and Anne which COULD have
caused one to live and thrive and one to not survive?
 Birth order exercise if time
 HW: read and outline chapter 5, sec. 1
2. Race and Children
1. Geraldo Show
 Socialization—interactive process where
people learn basic skills, values, beliefs and
behavior
 Self—conscious awareness of possessing a
distinct identity.
 Locke: The Tabula Rasa
 John Locke—clean slate—anything can be
written.
 Born without personality—social experiences
 Can shape you into who we want
 Cooley: The Looking-Glass Self
Horton Cooley—Interactive process by
which we develop an image of ourselves
 Baby has no sense of self—through
interaction and minor reflects their
image—continues through life
 A lot of responsibility on parents and
other primary group members
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Mead: Role-Taking
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George Herbert Mead—Cooley just beginning
Not only see us as others do, we take on roles of others—basis of
socialization process.
Role-taking—basis of socialization process
Significant others—people closest to us—parents, siblings,
relatives
Generalized other—internalized attitudes, expectations and
viewpoints of society. Take notes on Mead’s 3 steps
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Three steps Mead's theory
 Under three—imitate Anthony's dorky country song
 Three—play roles
 School—games or
 “I” (unsocialized, spontaneous self-interested) and
“Me”( part aware of expectations and attitudes of
society.)
OBJECTIVES AND AGENDA 10/28, 11/1
 OBJECTIVES
 Answer what the effect of the individual “agents of socialization” have on a student’s
personality.
 Discover what the effect of isolation has on personality.
 AGENDA
 Warm-up---Read article and discuss—True?? False?? Explain
Watch the video and answer the following questions.
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Describe how the twins were similar?
What does the video say about twins and Nature vs. Nurture?
 Twins
 Sociobiology and Agents of Socialization
 1. List and define all of the Agents of Socialization. For each agent, write Two examples
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how each influenced YOUR personality.
2. List and define the different elements of “Sociobiogy. For each element, give examples
from your life how you were “shaped”. Make sure you include examples from each element
3. WHEN YOU COMPLETE #1 AND #2, GO AROUND THE ROOM AND PUT YOUR
EXAMPLE ON THE POSTER BOARD PROVIDED.
Discuss agents of socialization
Resocialization
Isolation
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Genie video---write questions for the video—answer the questions as you watch the video
 Write notes on the video
 What are the facts of the case?
 What effects did total isolation have on Genie?
 Was she able to recover? Explain
SOCIOBIOLOGY
 Go
to your assigned poster: Write
ONE trait of yours which can be
associated with the given theory
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 1. Heredity- 2. Parental Characteristics- 3. The Cultural Environment- 4. Birth Order--
OBJECTIVES AND AGENDA 11/2, 3
 OBJECTIVES
 Describe the effects of the individual Agents of socialization
 List the affects of isolation on individual socialization
 Analyze how birth order affects individual socialization.
 AGENDA
 Warm-up—Is being a world class sprinter Nature or Nurture? Make a
list---explain using all sociobiological terms and the agents of
socialization…….Then watch video AND take notes
 Watch video on boot camp and resocialization----list the ways in which
the military “re-socializes” ordinary citizens.
 Isolation
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Genie video---write questions for the video—answer the questions as you
watch the video
 Write notes on the video
 What are the facts of the case?
 What effects did total isolation have on Genie?
 Was she able to recover? Explain
 Exercise—If time, write and define the characteristics of adolescence---
give two examples from your life.
 HW: Chapter Review—QUIZ ON CHAPTER 5 FRIDAY AND MONDAY
Is sprinting Nature verses Nurture?—BBC
Nature vs. Nurture
 Heredity—transmission of genetic characteristics from
parents to children
 APTITUDE---The capacity to learn a particular skill or
acquire a particular body of knowledge
 Instinct—unchanging, biologically inherited behavior
pattern—some responsible for everything?
 Nurture—social environment—Ivan Pavlov—instincts
could be taught—could train people for certain jobs
 Sociobiology—study of biological basis of all social
behavior—few accept the argument
 Most believe personality is a blend
AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION
 The Family
 Most important agent of socialization in most societies
 The Peer Group
 Different than family—socialization focuses on subgroup, not larger culture.—at
odds, many times, with family
 The School
 Much is deliberate—transmits learning and values of larger society.
 Unintended—manners of speech and dress, habits
 The Mass Media
 Resocialization
 Resocialization—break with past experiences and learning new values and norms.
 Resocialization---Student stories and graduation
 Write the individual stories and how they were “re-socialized”
 Basic Training
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Describe How to “create a soldier”
Isolation in Childhood—Feral Children
 Anna and Isabelle
 Kingsley Davis’s study
 Anna she was confined to an attic room—minimum care—no
human contact, not
walk, talk or feed herself—no
spoken to, held, bathed or loved.—could not
expressions—
Slowly learned to walk, talk and brush teeth—died at 10
 Isabelle—her and her deaf mother confined to dark room
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Crawl, grunt and animal sounds
Several months—spoke—two years—reached development of age group.
Institutionalization
 Rene Spitz—studied infants in orphanages
 1/3 died after 2 years
 25% could not walk, dress or use a spoon.
Romania
 Feral Children
 Genie
 National Geographic--Is it real?----See film guide
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BIRTH ORDER
 “I (do not) fit perfectly in the sociologists argument of
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the link between personality and Birth Order
because….”
Answer the above by researching the theorized
personality of the following:
1. 1st born
2. middle child
3. last born
4. only child
5. any exceptions???
The Social Self—Write title
HOMEWORK—After your Unit I
test…..
 Answer the following question in three paragraphs.
 Which theory of the social self accurately
describes how humans become their personality?
 Paragraph one—which one is correct and why?
 Paragraph two—Which one is incorrect and why?
 Paragraph three—Which one is incorrect and why?