Ch 4 - Socialisation

George Mead

________ used the term "generalised other "to refer to our perception of how people in general think of us.

Charles Horton Cooley

________ concluded that the self is part of how society makes us → our sense of self develops from interactions with others.

Agents of Socialisation

________: people who influence our orientation in life- family- peer groups- mass media.

Social class

________: social location people hold based on their income, education, and occupational prestige → influences our behaviour, ideas, and attitudes.

Feral children

children assumed to have been raised by animals, in the wilderness, isolated from humans

Isolated children

children who were so deprived of interaction that they did not become socialised

Looking-glass self

process by which this unique aspect of "humanness" develops

Agents of Socialisation

people who influence our orientation in life -family -peer groups -mass media

Social class

social location people hold based on their income, education, and occupational prestige → influences our behaviour, ideas, and attitudes

Status

position that someone occupies

Status Symbol

objects to elicit recognition of status → signs that identify status