1. CHAPTER 5 Socializing the Individual
Sociology
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CHAPTER 5 Socializing the Individual
Personality- the sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs and values that are characteristics of an individual.
Chapter 5

2. Factors That Shape Personality Development
Section 1: Personality Development
Factors That Shape Personality Development
Heredity – physical traits, aptitudes, inherited characteristics, biological drives
Parents – parental characteristics, such as age, education, religion, and economic status
Birth order – personalities are shaped by whether one has siblings
Cultural environment – determines the basic personality types found in a society

3. Isolation in Childhood and Development
Section 1: Personality Development
Isolation in Childhood and Development
A healthy cultural environment is essential for a child’s full development
Isolation can lead to severe effects such as causing children to waste away and die or to have stunted development

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6. How Sense of Self Emerges
Section 2: The Social Self
How Sense of Self Emerges
Through interaction with social and cultural environments people are transformed into members of society
Socialization- the process through which people learn the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of a society.

7. Three Theories of Socialization
Section 2: The Social Self
Three Theories of Socialization
John Locke – The Tabula Rosa
Charles Horton Cooley – The Looking Glass Self
George Herbert Mead – Role-Taking

8. John Locke – The Tabula Rosa
Section 2: The Social Self
John Locke – The Tabula Rosa
Each person is a blank slate at birth, with no personality.
People develop personality as a result of their social experiences.
Infants can be molded into any type of person.

9. Charles Horton Cooley – 1864-1929 The Looking Glass Self
Section 2: The Social Self
Charles Horton Cooley – The Looking Glass Self
Infants have no sense of person or place.
Children develop an image of themselves based on how others see them.
Other people act as a mirror, reflecting back the image a child projects through their reactions to the child’s behavior.

10. George Herbert Mead – Role-Taking
Section 2: The Social Self
George Herbert Mead – Role-Taking
People not only come to see themselves as others see them but also take on or pretend to take on the roles of others through imitation, play, and games.
This process enables people to anticipate what others expect of them.

11. Mead (continued)
Significant Others- People closest to us- parents, siblings, relatives-those that have a direct influence on our socialization.
Generalized Others-internalized attitudes, expectations, and viewpoints of society. We internalize these through role-taking.

12. Mead- (continued)
Through role-taking individuals develop a sense of self. The self consists of 2 parts-
“I”- the un-socialized part of our personality
“Me”- the socialized self.
In childhood “I” is stronger and as we become socialized we become “Me.”
To be a well-rounded member of society a person needs both aspects of self.

13. Agents of Socialization
Section 3: Agents of Socialization
Agents of Socialization
Family – most important agent
Peer group – primary group composed of individuals of roughly equal age and social characteristics, particularly influential during pre-teenage and early teenage years
School – plays a major role
Mass media – books, films, the Internet, magazines and television, not face-to-face

14. Importance of Family and Education
Section 3: Agents of Socialization
Importance of Family and Education
Teach children important life skills
Teach values, norms and beliefs

15. Re-socialization
Total Institution- people are isolated from the rest of society for a set period of time.
Examples: prisons, military boot camps,
psychiatric hospitals.
Re-socialization- a break with past experiences and learning new values and norms.