Chapter four starts with what socialization is. Socialization is the process by which people learn the culture of their society. This is where a society learns and adapts to a certain culture. This ties in with chapter three where norms, values and beliefs all come together and create culture and it is a lifelong process and people become integrated and then socialization begins. For example, in the Jewish religion and culture, when a boy turns thirteen years old, their parents celebrate it with a Bar Mitzvah, this is a major celebration in their religion and it is part of their socialization. With socialization, there are four different theories to understanding it. The first one is, behaviorism, a psychological perspective that emphasizes
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For example, if a kid is bullied, he/she will believe everything they say. Piaget and Kohler’s stages of development; the preconventional stage, people seek simply to achieve personal gain or avoid punishment. The conventional stage, people are socialized into their given society’s norms and values. And, lastly, the post conventional stage, individual demonstrates abstract notions of right or wrong. Freud’s biological needs versus social constraints. Psychoanalysis, a perspective that emphasizes the complex reasoning processes of the conscious and unconscious mind. For example, like in movies, when they hypnotize a person and his unconscious mind is speaking things which the concious part would not say. Then it talks about how the Id, ego and super ego helps us define ourselves. The last thing on this chapter, is about the agents of socialization: family, teachers and school, peers, sports, religion, mass media and work and how they affect society and how we socialize with …show more content…
It has so mush information and it really ties in with chapter one through three. Chapter four started talking about how people the mind works an how powerful it is. I really enjoyed reading this chapter because I could read some psychology and how sociology and psychology intersect. All the sociologists and psychologist on this chapter were easy to understand and their points that they were making. It’s also really interesting how selfish we can be. But also how at ease and gentle we can also be. In the end, it all depends what we’ve been trough, those important memories shape us mentally. And we’re also in charge of our own consists mind, and to some extent, our unconscious
For example, if a kid is bullied, he/she will believe everything they say. Piaget and Kohler’s stages of development; the preconventional stage, people seek simply to achieve personal gain or avoid punishment. The conventional stage, people are socialized into their given society’s norms and values. And, lastly, the post conventional stage, individual demonstrates abstract notions of right or wrong. Freud’s biological needs versus social constraints. Psychoanalysis, a perspective that emphasizes the complex reasoning processes of the conscious and unconscious mind. For example, like in movies, when they hypnotize a person and his unconscious mind is speaking things which the concious part would not say. Then it talks about how the Id, ego and super ego helps us define ourselves. The last thing on this chapter, is about the agents of socialization: family, teachers and school, peers, sports, religion, mass media and work and how they affect society and how we socialize with …show more content…
It has so mush information and it really ties in with chapter one through three. Chapter four started talking about how people the mind works an how powerful it is. I really enjoyed reading this chapter because I could read some psychology and how sociology and psychology intersect. All the sociologists and psychologist on this chapter were easy to understand and their points that they were making. It’s also really interesting how selfish we can be. But also how at ease and gentle we can also be. In the end, it all depends what we’ve been trough, those important memories shape us mentally. And we’re also in charge of our own consists mind, and to some extent, our unconscious