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Explain the "nature v. nurture" debate as it relates to socialization. |
Socialization is a process in which we learn and internalize the attitudes, values, beliefs, and norms of our culture and develop of sense of self.
Nature (heredity) Darwinism the concept that we have to adapt to our environments through continuous biological and physiological adaptations.
Nurture (environment) The thought that human development is influenced by the environment, and that all behavior is learned.
The nature vs. nurture debate is over and both sides lost. What we inherited biological |
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Identify the three agents of socialization most widely accepted as Legitimate Socializing Agents and discuss the role each plays. |
Family, School , and Religion |
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Family |
The family plays one of the most important roles in socialization helping him or her to internalize culture and develop a social identity. Family provides social status a child's social class is important aspect of his or her identity and is one of the most important variables i determining educational attainment, the selection of a marital partner, place of residence, religious and political preferences, occupation, and even life expectancy. Family socialization is intentional and carefully designed but some is inadvertent and unrealized. Heavy drinker and learned abuse habits. Learned behavior by watching your family act in everyday activities. Sex-role socialization by room decoration, clothing, and toys that appropriate for the child's gender. |
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School |
Society's institutionalized process for teaching important knowledge to new generations. The schools primary charge in the socialization process is the transmission of the cognitive aspects of culture from one generation to another and preparation for assuming future roles. Education is formalized and highly structured. The educational experience is supposed to develop intellectual skills, creativity and the ability tho think critically. Unfortunately much of the socialization experience in school emphasizes conformity, unquestioned obedience and successfully "playing the game." Intellectual knowledge should be supplemented with teaching values, ethics, and morality. |
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Religion |
Not all society's have organized churches, but all have institutionalized religious practices. This function is so important that according to anthropologists over the past 100,000 years no group of people anywhere on earth that have been found that did not practice some form of religion. On outcome of religious socialization is the development of a life theme, an over-riding way of viewing and interpreting the world. |
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Discuss the effects of social isolation from the text and you can also discuss "Genie: Secret of a Wild Child." |
Healthy individuals are born with all the genetic biological and physiological potential to become full human beings, it is the socialization process that completes their transformation. Genie the "Wild Child" is a n example of what happens when there is no social structure in life. Genie was not given the tools that most children are given when they are being raised by responsible parents. Genie was void of all of the agents of socialization, she did have family, but that was the detrimental part of her socialization process and that led Genie to have zero social skills and the inability to function as other children her age robbing her of her ability to become legitimately socialized. Try as hard as the researcher did Genie was so far behind that it proved very difficult to fix all of the issues created by her parents. |
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Discuss the "Looking Glass Self." |
Charles Horton-Cooley wrote Human Nature and Social Order in 1902. The looking glass self is a process in which individuals use others like mirrors and base their conceptions of themselves on what is reflected back to them during social interaction. People shaping their self concepts based on their understanding of how others perceive them. Cooley says that society is an interweaving and inter-working of mental selves. This process begins at an early age and continues throughout the entirety of a persons life, one will never stop modifying their self unless all social interactions are stopped. |
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How important is socialization during your life course? |
If I would have had no socialization in my life I would have ended up like Genie or something like that, Socialization has been very important for my life good or bad. By learning the bad aspects of social interactions I would have not learned the right way to do things, that is said for good interactions. Without socialization from all of the agents I would be a mess. |
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Discuss status, status set, ascribed status and achieved status. |
Status- Defined as a socially defined position in a social structure. Usually a person's statuses are more or less consistent, but occasionally a person occupies two or more statuses that society deems contradictory (status inconsistency) |
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Status Set |
Al of the statuses a person has at a given time. Dad, student, coach, cook, driver, handyman, and etc. The statuses that people occupy change not only according to social context, but over the life course as well. |
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Ascribed Status |
Statuses assigned to individuals without reference to their abilities or efforts. Age, race, gender, ethnicity, family background. No choice you are born with these statuses. |
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Achieved Status |
Statuses secured through effort and ability. Something that you have achieved by yourself. Becoming a spouse, a felon, student, employee, anything that has become because or your efforts. |
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What is the definition of roles and answer the following question as it relates to the Stanford Prison Experiment. |
A set of expectations, rights, and duties that are attached to a particular status. Without roles, human social life would be almost impossible, because roles guide our interactions in virtually every social situation. We play roles in every part of our daily lives. |
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To what extent is each of us a "prisoner" of the roles we play? |
Once we have become committed to the roles we choose to play in life we get stuck in these roles for our entire life unless we can make changes that would change our roles. I was in the role of Fireman for many years and that role dictated what I did in every aspect of my life, I was a "prisoner" of that role and could not change it until I changed what my new prison would be. Now I am a "prisoner" of my new role as a student. That did not change all of my roles, I am still a father and husband and follow that role, but my daily role of what my identity is has changed, thus changing my achieved status. I still have my past achievements, but now I am making new achievements. |
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The relationship is which we are involved, and the society in which we live?
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I do not like to say I am a "prisoner" in my relationship roles, but I do think that I am locked into a life long commitment to these relationships and I want to continue to improve my relationships by learning and growing forever. It seems we can be "prisoners" of our roles in society. At what point do we think we are doing what we think is right or are we doing what society deems the right way to do things. If a person is afraid to change because they fear what society will think of them the they are prisoners and will not get to truly be a free human being. People tend to worry to much about what society thinks is right and wrong, the problem I have with that is where does society get all the rules from? |
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To what extent do we build a maintain the walls of our "jail" through our own actions? |
If we always do what we did, then we will always get what we got. Change is hard so we continue to do what we know and what makes us comfortable even if it is wrong. We get caught in the rut of life and the longer we are in those ruts the higher and stronger our walls get. |
