1. Desocialization and Resocialization
Unit 3: Socialization

2. Socialization After Childhood
Remember: Whenever change occurs in your life, you will learn new behaviors and skills
Learning is important to socialization!
Symbolic Interactionism describes four processes associated with socialization after childhood:
Desocialization
Resocialization
Anticipatory Socialization
Reference Groups

3. Desocialization
Desocialization: the process by which people give up old norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors
Total institutions: places where residents are separated from the rest of society
Mental hospitals
Cults
Prisons

4. Desocialization
In total institutions, people are not free to manage their own lives  controlled and manipulated by those in charge
The end result is to permanently change the residents of these institutions
This is accomplished in several ways:
Replacing personal items with standard-issue items
Serial numbers  no names
Loss of privacy

5. Resocialization
Once the self-concept has been broken down through desocialization, resocialization can begin
Resocialization: the process in which people adopt new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors

6. Resocialization
Those in charge of the institution (using a system of rewards and punishments) attempt to give residents new self-concepts
Rewards: extra food, special privileges, periods of privacy
Punishments: shaming, loss of special privileges, physical punishment, physical isolation

7. Anticipatory Socialization
Anticipatory socialization: the process of preparing (in advance) for new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors
It involves voluntary change
Usually occurs in people who are moving from one stage of their life to another
Examples?