Socialization Nature vs Nurture
1. Nature and Nurture: What do twin studies tell us about nature/nurture? Also, discuss the influence of heredity in explaining the process of one’s personality and intellectual development. Provide examples.
Twin studies tells that both nature and nurture influences the development of one's behavior. The twins have some similar characters because of the same genes they share which are inherited from the parents. They also have different interests and beliefs because they were raised in different physical environment . One's personality and can be both inborn and acquired.
2. What is the self? According to Charles Horton Cooley, explain the “looking glass self” (discuss the three phases). George Herbert Mead also discusses the stages of the self: identify differences between I and Me. What is meant by significant others? How are significant others related to the self? Identify Mead’s three-stage process of self-development.
"Self" is the image of one hold about himself or herself. According to Charles Horton Cooley, a person's "self" is developed through interactions with other people in the society and how they think others perceive them. The three phases are: 1. People imagine how they appear to others. 2.People think of how others would judge their appearance and response to what they feel. 3. People develop the "self" through other's judgment of them.
3. Explain the dramaturgical approach. What occurs on front-stage? What happens in backstage? How can Erving Goffman’s idea of impression management and face-work be used to understand social behavior?
Dramaturgical approach is a sociology perspective that starts from symbolic interactionism. It states that elements of a person's everyday interaction depend on three factors: time, place, and audiences that surround us. At the front stage, the actor perform and sticks to the convention that are meaningful to the audience. The performance is consistent and can be explained through generalized way. According to Goffman, the self is a drama effect that comes from the immediate scene presented in front of us. We are the directors who view what is going on in the theater of daily life. At the back stage, performers are present but audience are not there anymore. Performers are free to perform our of the characters. What is suppressed in the front stage can be released from themselves.
4. Identify the agents of socialization. What is the role of schools in gender role socialization? How has technology (computer, cell phone, email, & TV) influenced the socialization process?
Family, school, media and peers are all agents of socialization. Traditionally, school is the place to gain knowledge or learn life skills and rules. However, we also improve our social and interpersonal skills through interaction with classmates and teachers. When students learn how to behave properly in their early age, it is good for their future development and the stability of the society. Technology influences the socialization process dramatically . People are frequently surrounded by the media. People who are shy can express their idea through words. Social application like facebook or twitter make interactions more broad and more convenient. People have more access to more areas of people.
5. What are total institutions? Identify Goffman’s four traits of total institutions. Discuss how a degradation ceremony is used to mortify one’s sense of self.
Total institutions are isolated, enclosed, formally organized social systems that lives the people of similar situation and conditional. Total institution serves to control the these people's life from residence to work. Examples are like prisons or mental hospital. A degradation ceremony has the purpose of deprive one's former identity and even self-esteem in order to make them get used to the control of the total institution. It can be seen as a transforming rite that people who are put into the total institution has to go through.
6. How does society deal with an elderly population? Discuss differences between disengagement theory and activity theory? Finally, provide solutions to ageism
Activity theory proposes that older people would be happier if they remain active physically and mentally. Disengagement theory proposes that it is natural and inevitable that aging people would have less interaction with peers around them and the society when they become closer to death. As for solutions to ageism, it is similar like other kinds of discrimination. Old people should be encourage to participate to all kinds of social activity as long as they are willing and able to. Young people should more frequently communicate with the old people and exchange each other's story.
Twin studies tells that both nature and nurture influences the development of one's behavior. The twins have some similar characters because of the same genes they share which are inherited from the parents. They also have different interests and beliefs because they were raised in different physical environment . One's personality and can be both inborn and acquired.
2. What is the self? According to Charles Horton Cooley, explain the “looking glass self” (discuss the three phases). George Herbert Mead also discusses the stages of the self: identify differences between I and Me. What is meant by significant others? How are significant others related to the self? Identify Mead’s three-stage process of self-development.
"Self" is the image of one hold about himself or herself. According to Charles Horton Cooley, a person's "self" is developed through interactions with other people in the society and how they think others perceive them. The three phases are: 1. People imagine how they appear to others. 2.People think of how others would judge their appearance and response to what they feel. 3. People develop the "self" through other's judgment of them.
3. Explain the dramaturgical approach. What occurs on front-stage? What happens in backstage? How can Erving Goffman’s idea of impression management and face-work be used to understand social behavior?
Dramaturgical approach is a sociology perspective that starts from symbolic interactionism. It states that elements of a person's everyday interaction depend on three factors: time, place, and audiences that surround us. At the front stage, the actor perform and sticks to the convention that are meaningful to the audience. The performance is consistent and can be explained through generalized way. According to Goffman, the self is a drama effect that comes from the immediate scene presented in front of us. We are the directors who view what is going on in the theater of daily life. At the back stage, performers are present but audience are not there anymore. Performers are free to perform our of the characters. What is suppressed in the front stage can be released from themselves.
4. Identify the agents of socialization. What is the role of schools in gender role socialization? How has technology (computer, cell phone, email, & TV) influenced the socialization process?
Family, school, media and peers are all agents of socialization. Traditionally, school is the place to gain knowledge or learn life skills and rules. However, we also improve our social and interpersonal skills through interaction with classmates and teachers. When students learn how to behave properly in their early age, it is good for their future development and the stability of the society. Technology influences the socialization process dramatically . People are frequently surrounded by the media. People who are shy can express their idea through words. Social application like facebook or twitter make interactions more broad and more convenient. People have more access to more areas of people.
5. What are total institutions? Identify Goffman’s four traits of total institutions. Discuss how a degradation ceremony is used to mortify one’s sense of self.
Total institutions are isolated, enclosed, formally organized social systems that lives the people of similar situation and conditional. Total institution serves to control the these people's life from residence to work. Examples are like prisons or mental hospital. A degradation ceremony has the purpose of deprive one's former identity and even self-esteem in order to make them get used to the control of the total institution. It can be seen as a transforming rite that people who are put into the total institution has to go through.
6. How does society deal with an elderly population? Discuss differences between disengagement theory and activity theory? Finally, provide solutions to ageism
Activity theory proposes that older people would be happier if they remain active physically and mentally. Disengagement theory proposes that it is natural and inevitable that aging people would have less interaction with peers around them and the society when they become closer to death. As for solutions to ageism, it is similar like other kinds of discrimination. Old people should be encourage to participate to all kinds of social activity as long as they are willing and able to. Young people should more frequently communicate with the old people and exchange each other's story.