Transcript Ch.05 Socialization

Ch._5 Socialization
What would you be like if you had
not been socialized?
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What case studies gives an insight into the
lack of socialization?
Critical thinking question
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How does one’s preference for a nature or nurture
explanation of behavior influence the type of social
policy that one favors to reduce crime, poverty,
violence?
Why did the institutionalized
patient have no emotion?
Do other species have
developmental damage when not
socialized?
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What study helps us understand this?
What do you have as a result of
socialization?
Personality
 Thought
 Self concept
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How did you get your personality?
According to Freud…
What part of your personality comes from
socialization?
 What part comes from biology
 What part deals with the conflict between
biology and society?
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How did you get your ability to
think and reason?
What were Piaget’s stages of mental
development?
 What tests determined that the child had
progressed to the next stage?
 Can you describe these tests?
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Your self esteem Who do you think you are?
What is self esteem?
 Where does it come from?
 What creates low self esteem?
 What are the consequences of low self
esteem?
 How can you increase self esteem in:
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Yourself?
 Others?
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Your self esteem Who do you think you are?
What is Mead’s concept of the generalized
other?
 How did you develop this “Generalized
other”?
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Your self esteem Who do you think you are?
What is Cooley’s concept of the “Looking
Glass Self”?
 Can you give an example?
 What does this mean for you?
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Resocialization
& Total institutions
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How does the military use Goffman’s concept
of resocialization and the concept of total
institutionalization?