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-drive for fundamental need


-basic drives


-food, water, sex, sleep


-the demands of society in the form of internalized values and norms

superego

- the demands of society in the form of internalized values and norms


-above individual, conscious, cultural norms

ego

-balance between ID and super ego


- the demands of society in the form of internalized values and norms


Sigmund Freud

human personality (ID,ego, superego)

Jean piaget

-swiss phycologist


-cognitive development


-believed that human development involves both biological maturation and gaining
social experience

stages of cognitive development

-sensorimotor stage: infants/young children learn through senses


-preoperational stage: start to label things and basic language


-concrete operational stage: 6-11y/o; start seeing causal connections/ how and why things happen


-formal operational stage: 12 y/0; abstract thinking (justice, peace)

lawrence Kohlberg

applied Piaget’s approach to stages of moral development

moral development stages

-We first judge rightness in Preconventional terms, according to our individual needs/what feels good


-Next, conventional moral reasoning takes account of parental attitudes and cultural norms; late childhood/early adolescence; right = rules; right = what pleases parent/teacher


- Finally, Postconventional reasoning allows us to criticize society itself; late adolescence/ young adult; abstract moral principles;sometimes may over ride rules

carol Gilligan

-found that gender plays an important part in moral development, with males
relying more on abstract standards of rightness and females relying more on the effects of
actions on relationships


-work in response to kohlberg


-boys: justice/the rules


-girls: care/ responcibility


GH mead

-The self is part of our personality and includes self-awareness and self-image.
• The self develops only as a result of social experience.
• Social experience involves the exchange of symbols.
• Social interaction depends on understanding the intention of another, which requires
taking the role of the other.
• Human action is partly spontaneous (the I) and partly in response to others (the me).
• We gain social experience through imitation, play, games, and understanding the generalized other


-developes over time and in interaction with others


-self is not biologically based but a social product


-learn via symbols (how do other people react?)


-comunication

charles horton cooley

used the term looking-glass self to explain that we see ourselves as we
imagine others see us

Erik Erikson

identified challenges that individuals face at each stage of life from infancy
to old age.

stages of socialization across the life span and their challenges

1) infantcy: establish trust is 1st challenge vs mistrust


2) todlerhood: challenge of confidence/automy vs doubt and shame


3)preschool: challenge of initiative (learning how to do thinks and meet expectations) vs giult


4)preadolecence: industriusness vs infearioirity


5) adolecence/teen: identity vs confusion


6)young adult: intimacy vs isolation


7)middle age: making a difference vs self absorption


8) older adult: life review integrity vs disappear


agents of socialization

-family


-schools


-peer group


-mass media

kubler ross

death and dying

stages of death and dying

1) denial


2) anger


3) barganing


4) depression


5) acceptance

total institutions

-include prisons, mental hospitals, and monasteries.


• Staff members supervise all aspects of life.


• Life is standardized, with all inmates following set rules and routines.

resocialization

- two-part process:


• breaking down inmates’ existing identity


• building a new self through a system of rewards and punishments


- purpose of institutions is resocialization

erving goffman

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social structure

refers to social patterns that guide our behavior in everyday life. he building


blocks of social structure are status and role

status

a social position that is part of our social identity and that defines our relationships to others.



ascribed status

- involuntary (for example, being a teenager,


an orphan, or a Mexican American)


-assigned to you

achieved status

-position that you gain by your effort


-which is earned (for example, being an honors student, a pilot, or a thief

master status

can be either ascribed or achieved, has special


importance for a person’s identity (for example, being blind, a doctor,


or a Kennedy)

status set

a collection of statuses

role

behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status.

role conflict

results from tension among roles linked to two or more statuses (for example, a


woman who juggles her responsibilities as a mother and a corporate CEO)

role strain

results from tension among roles linked to a single status (for example, the college


professor who enjoys personal interaction with students but at the same time knows that social


distance is necessary in order to evaluate students fairly)

role set

number of roles attached to a single status

social construction of reality

the process by which


people creatively shape reality


through social interaction

presentation of self

Erving


Goffman’s term for a person’s


efforts to create specific


impressions in the minds


of others

Dramaturgical

explores social interaction in terms of theatrical performance:


A status operates as a part in a play, and a role is a script

performance

are the way we present ourselves to others.


• Performances are both conscious (intentional action) and unconscious (nonverbal


communication).


• Performances include costume (the way we dress), props (objects we carry), and demeanor


(tone of voice and the way we carry ourselves)

socialization

-learning


-taking on the culture


-life long prosses


-occurs in a social context through interations with others/agents

group

are two or more people who identify with and interact with one another

primary group

small, personal, and lasting (examples include family and close


friends

secondary group

large, impersonal and goal-oriented, and often of shorter duration


(examples include a college class or a corporation).

type of leadership: instrumental leadership

focuses on completing tasks.

type of leadership: expressive leadership

focuses on a group’s well-being

leadrership style: authoritarian

leader gives orders and followers obey

leadership style: democratic

leader includes everyone in the decision making process

leadership style: laissez-faire

leaders allow group members to function more or less on their own

asch

-studied group conformity


-"which line is longer" study


-1/3 gave wrong answer even though they knew it was wrong


-study in peer pressure

milgram

-student of asch


-said studying how punishment affects learning


-actually testing obedience to authority


-2/3 shocked at highst volts

group think

-janis


-tendancy of group members to conform results in a narrow view of the situation


reference group

-group that is a reference point/standard that we use in evaluating ourselves, make desisions


-ex: families response to new significant other

ingroup

-group in which you identify with, are loyal to, connected to


-"people who are like me"


-family friends

outgroup

-group in which you don't identify with, feel a sense of opposition, hatred,compitition


-"people who are not like me"


-rival team

dyad

-2 people group


-smallest


-most frangile


triad

- 3 people group


-more stable


-has potential of alliance

group size

-as groups grow in size there is more potential for relationships


-as group grows in size needs to make group formality and structure


-very large groups with a formal structure are called formal organizations

sex

biological, referring to bodily differences between females and males

gender

behavioral expectations built up upon biological differences between masculinity and femininity

primary sex characterisits

reproductive organs

secondary sex characteristics

fasical hair, deepening of voice, wider hips of females

binary

2 separate, non overlapping categories

gender binary

-2 separate non overlapping categories of male and female (XX and XY)


- but you can also be XXY, X, XYY (intrasexual)

sex of assignment

male or female on birth certificate

intersex

people who have both male and female characteristics

transsexual/transgender

-people who feel they are one sex when they are biologically the other



-trans men: female to mail


-trans women: male to femail

gender conformation surgery

sex reassignment surgery

sexual orienation

to whom are you attracted emotionally and or sexually to



heterosexual


homosexual


bisexual


asexual

sexual revolution

-peaked in the 1960s and 1970s, drew sexuality out into the open. Baby boomers were the first


generation to grow up with the idea that sex was a normal part of social life.


-birth control


- double standard for females

sexual counter revolution

began around 1980, aimed criticism at “permissiveness” and urged a return to more


traditional “family values.

alfred kinsey

-1st person to study sex and sexuality


-1950s

sex fréquence

One-third report having sex with a partner a few times a year or not at all;


another one-third have sex once to several times a month; the remaining one-third have sex two or more times a week

sex over the life course

young adults most frequenct


frequency declines with age


doesn't stop just declines

prostitution hierarchy

-street walkers


-sex workers in brothels


-call girls

structural functionalism and sexuality

-regulation of sexual control of society


-ex: gay marrage


-highlights society’s need to regulate sexual activity and especially


reproduction. One universal norm is the incest taboo, which keeps family relations clear

conflict theory and sexuality

-sexuality is linked to social inequality


-ex double standard


-links sexuality to social inequality. Fminis oy claims that men


dominate women by devaluing them to the level of sexual objects. Qu oy claims our soci-


ety has a heterosexual bias, defining anything different as “queer


symbolic interactionism

-looks for differences and similarities


-some societies may be quite different from other societies in terms of expectation for sexual behavior /expression


ex: women in middle east


-emphasizes the various meanings people attach to sexuality. The social construction of sexuality can be seen in sexual differences between


societies and in changing sexual patterns over time

`ethnomethodology

-the study of the way that people make sense of their everyday surroundings/uncover the hidden assumptions


-how do you uncover these assumptions? need to ask the rules and we might break a norm and need to see how people react to it


- a strategy to reveal the assumptions people have about their social world.


• We can expose these assumptions by intentionally breaking the “rules” of social interaction and


observing the reactions of other people.

thomas theorum


-reality people construct in their interaction has real consequences for the future.


• For example, a teacher who believes a certain student to be intellectually gifted may well


encourage exceptional academic performance.


-situations that are defined as real are real in their consequences (whether or not they are real have same implications to them)


-ex: if weather forecast says buzzard we run to the store to get food to prepare (act as it is really coming even though we don't know for sure)

role exit

departing a particular status and expectations even if we leave a role the expectations still stay with us

demeanor

-the way we act/how we carry ourselves


-more powerful people have more freedom in the way they act


-we can pick up some difference between men and women

use of space

amount of space you take up


-people of power typically command mire space


-personal space: could be a cultural thing

staring smiling touching

-eye contact implies interaction


-women hold eye contact longer than men


-touch may welcome, unwelcome, direct, or dominating


-men hold women's back while walking to steer her


-

idealization

ex talking, smiling, and being polite to someone you don't like


-acting interested in a class thats really boring


little lies in our performances help us maintain everyday life

embarresment

loosing face


saving face

emotions

-feeling


-very personal because they are inside


- 6 basic emotions that are found cross culturally (sad, anger, happiness, fear, disgust, surprise


-culture gives us rules about what triggers a particular emotion and how we display our emotions


language

can convey power and value

humor

-contradictions, ambiguites


-the punch line: a different reality is present


-contectually specific


-can be a double edged sward (funny to some and offensive to others)


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types of formal organizations

-utilitarian: pay people for their efforts (examples include a business or


government agency)


-normitive: have goals people consider worthwhile (examples include


voluntary associations such as the PA)


-Coercive: people are forced to join (examples include prisons and mental hospitals)

bureaurocracy

- Max Weber saw as the dominant type of organization in modern


-rationally designed to efficiently perform tasks



societies, is based on


• specialization: division of labor


• hierarchy of positions


• rules and regulations


• technical competence


• impersonality


• formal, written communications

oligarchy

rule of the many by the few


ie congress