SOCIALIZATION

AUGUST 22-24, 2016

2 ND Q U A RT E R L E S S O N 1
CHAPTER 4
PA G E 1 0 1

AGREE OR
DISAGREE?

A CHILD
POSSESSES NO
HUMAN NATURE
AT BIRTH.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

Why is socialization an
invisible yet a very formidable
process that each member of
society has to experience and
undergo?

GENIE WILEY
(1989)

Genie lived at
an adult care
home at that
time.

SOCIALIZATION
REFERS TO A LIFELONG
SOCIAL EXPERIENCE BY
WHICH PEOPLE DEVELOP
THEIR HUMAN POTENTIAL
AND LEARN CULTURE.

SOCIALIZATION
A process in which we learn
and
internalize
the
attitudes, values, beliefs, and
norms of our culture and
develop a sense of self

SOCIALIZATION

It takes place in specific

contexts. It is culturally
specific.
It refers to the deliberate
shaping of the individual.

ENCULTURATION
The process by which people
learn the requirements of their
surrounding culture and acquire
the values and behaviors
appropriate or necessary in that
culture.

Parents/Family

School

Peers/Friends

Church

Successful Enculturation results in

competence in the following areas:

Language
Values
Rituals

During the first two to three

years of life a babys brain is
literally being wired for skills
and activities such as thinking,
mathematics, music and, most
important, language.

PERSONALITY
DEVELOPMENT
A Psychological Point of View

PERSONALITY
1. A dominant pattern of attitudes,
feelings and behaviors
2. Sociologists call it
a concept of self.

3 Important
Components
of Personality
According to
Sigmund Freud

Id

superego

ego

3 Important
Components
of Personality
According to
Sigmund Freud

Id

Basic needs,
drives and
desires that
are present at
birth; the
animal nature
of human
beings

3 Important
Components
of Personality
According to
Sigmund Freud

The
conscience
superego which
constrains
the id

3 Important
Components
of Personality
According to
Sigmund Freud

ego

This
mediates
between the
id and the
superego
and balances
the two

WRITE TIME #1: Think about a time or

an instance/situation where one of these
components was stronger than the rest.
Describe the situation and how you
handled it.

WRITE TIME #2: As a Christian or a

child of God, how should we view
these components of personality
and what must be our basis for our
personality?

Pastilan hapit naputol ang yin-yang

na lao tzu nga gipakabit nako sa
zipper sa akong bag, gihabwa nako
ang mga pirated dvd sa concert ni
brandon boyd ug salida ni leonardo
di caprio.

Samoka!
naukay lagi ang akong buyot
tungod nimo

AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION
FAMILY

SCHOOL

MEDIA

FRIENDS/PEERS
RELIGION/
CHURCH

Developing
a Sense of
Self
George Herbert Meads theory

SELF

A
persons
conscious
recognition that he or she
is a distinct individual
who is part of a larger
society.

The self as a
product of social
experience

Symbolic
Interactionist
Theory