4th quarter - 2nd week

• Lifelong process of social interaction through which people acquire their identities and necessary survival skills in a society.

  Socialization
• The process whereby an individual learns to adjust to a group (or society) and behave in a manner approved by the group (or society).

  Socialization
• means the process of acquiring the rules, norms, values, customs and guidelines of a culture he/she lives in.

  Enculturation
• the process of cultural and psychological change that takes place as a result of contact between cultural groups and their individual members.

  Acculturation
• DEVELOPMENT OF AN INDIVIDUAL’S UNIQUE PERSONALITY BY WHICH

  HE OR SHE IS RECOGNIZED OR KNOWN.

  Identity Formation
• • Genetic makeup is the primary factor in determining human behavior.
  • Physical feature and personality characteristics

  Nature
• Environmental variables (early childhood experiences, how we are raised, our social relationships, and our surrounding culture) effect

  who we are

  Nurture
• people develop self-images through interactions with other people. He argued that the self, which is the part of a person's personality consisting of self-awareness and self-image, is a product of social experience.

  Social Self Theory (George Herbert Mead)
• What are the three stages of development of self?

  Preparatory, Play, and Games
• Children imitate people around them,especially family members. (Early Childhood)

  Example:Gestures, words, and objets

  Preparatory
• Children Develops self by allowing individuals to take on different roles, pretend, and express expectation of others.


  Play
• Develop self by allowing individuals to understand and adhere to the rules of the activity. (9-10 years old)

  Games
• Rules and expectations that's specify how people should or should not behave in various social situations, while values are general standard of

  those things that people consider important to them.

  Norms and Values
• a position a person occupies within a social structure, and an expected behavior associated with a particular status.

  Status and Roles
• What are the two kinds of status?

  Ascribed and Achieved
• is a social position assigned at birth and is, therefore,

  usually permanent. e.g., sex, caste, race, age. ethnic background, place of birth, and family name

  Ascribed Status
• is one that is chosen or achieved,statuses that

  are not fixed by inheritance, biological characteristics, or other factors.

  E.g being a doctor, husband, and father and etc.

  Achieved Status
• What are the four agents of socialization?

  Family, school, peers, mass media
• is the first agent of socialization. Mothers and fathers, siblings and grandparents, plus members of an extended family, all teach a child what he or she needs to know.

  Family
• • It includes people of about the same age, social status, and interests.
  • Children begin interacting with peer groups at an early age, playing with same-age children in their neighborhoods, day cares, or playgroups.

  Peers
• we learn social skills through our interactions with teachers, staff, and other students.

  School
• give individuals a wide view of culture and ideas and reactions to and

  judgments about the culture and ideas.

  Mass media
• What are the three factors of socialization?


  The type of society, The subcultures within a society, Unique individual experiences