Ts

• Socialization


  Interactive process through which people learn Basic Skills, Values, Beliefs, and Behavior patterns of a society
• A Healthy Ecology

  • FAMILY – Bounded to caregivers. Positive Discipline
  • SCHOOL – Supportive teachers. Academic Success
  • Peers – Peer Acceptance. Pro-social Values
• Human infants begin to recognize themselves in the mirror when they are about two years old
• Family Constellation

  Consisted of parents, children, and any extended family members, Birth order influences a person's lifestyle choices
• Charles Horton Cooley: '“I am not what I think I am, I am not what you think I am; I am what I think you think I am.”'
• Three stages of development of the self

  1. Preparatory Stage (birth-about age 2)

  2. The Play Stage (from about age 2 to 6)

  3. The Game Stage (from about age 7 onwards)
• Self-Concept


  Sum total of beliefs we each have about ourselves
• A High-Risk Ecology

  • FAMILY – Insecure bond. Inconsistent Discipline
  • SCHOOL – Conflict with teachers. Academic Failure
  • Peers – Peer Conflict. Antisocial Values
• George Mead


  • An American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist, Central concept is the self, Developed with social experience
• Social relationships

  • Define our self, How we think of ourselves is linked to the person we are with at the moment
• Inferiority Complex

  Excessive feelings of inferiority leading to overcompensation and unhealthy outcomes
• Superiority Complex/Striving for Superiority


  Socially nonproductive attempt to gain personal superiority with little or no concern for others
• People actively seek to improve themselves according to Alfred Adler
• Striving for Success

  Motivated by social interest and the success of all humankind, Capable of helping others without expecting a personal payoff
• Styles of Life


  • Ruling Type
  • Getting Type
  • Avoiding Type
  • Socially-Useful Type