1. Institutions, Socialization and the Social Construction of our world

2. Institutions Are socially constructed and must fit in with the existing social structures and culture. because many institutions have existed in a particular pattern for so long many people assume that an institution represents the “natural” way something is supposed to be. Examples?

3. Those statuses and roles… Remember that institutions are made up of patterned statuses and roles. In the family there is a man who’s a husband, a woman who is a wife…. The man makes money…. Etc. If we accept that these statuses and roles are institutionalized creations of a society, not necessarily the “natural” way to be, how do we learn them?

4. Socialization (and I’m not talking about going to a party and making friends) According to McIntyre, socialization is, “the process by which people acquire cultural competency and through which society perpetuates the fundamental nature of existing social structures.” (take a minute and re-state this in your own words) Through socialization we develop a “social self” – “a relatively organized complex of attitudes, beliefs, values, and behaviors associated with an individual”

5. Cooley The looking glass self (cooool!) –How do I look to you –What’s your reaction to how I look ( I see you looking at me, reacting to me) –Self-feeling –For example: Louise “Look, I wrote my name” Lynn “oh that’s beautiful!” (Louise sees Lynn as being very impressed and amazed) Louise feels great pride

6. Mead The “I” and the “me” (putting myself in your shoes and looking at myself) –The I is my reaction to a situation, my impulses. –The me is my perception of you looking at me Louise: I want the carrots and celery that mom has cut up for the soup (I). Mom will be mad at me if I take the vegetables because they are for the soup, not for me right now (me). I really want the vegetables (I). I will take them and tell mom “I tested the vegetables and they are just right for the soup” and that will seem helpful and big girl like (me).

7. Mead We develop our sense of the “me” by both interacting with our primary group and by playing—a way to experience situations outside our realms. When we take the “role” of another, we see how things look from another perspective (Louise playing mommy to her brother). The more roles we take on, the more complex of a “generalized other” we develop

8. Generalized Other We get to a certain point in our life when we’ve interacted with enough people to have a general sense of how someone is going to react. (If you sneeze and don’t cover your mouth, people will tell you to cover your mouth, sneer, or look in disgust at you). This is why crazy uncles are so much fun—they don’t fit into a child’s narrow sense of the generalized other.

9. Agents of socialization Family School Mass media Peer groups The workplace –Anticipatory socialization Think about each of the above categories. Remember one thing you learned from each, Be as specific as possible.

10. What happens when a person is not socialized? Genie

11. No Way My Boys Are Going To Be Like That! Kane 1) introduction 2) Parents and Social Construction of Gender 3) Doing Gender: Accomplishment and Accountability 4) Normative Conceptions of Masculinity: Hegemonic Masculinity 5) Data and Method 6) Responses to Gender Nonconformity 7) Domestic Skills, Nurturance, and Empathy 8) Icons of Femininity 9) Homosexuality 10) Parental Motivations for Accomplishment of Masculinity and Conclusion