Socialization
Education, Identity-Formation, &
Stratification
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Socialization: Culture, Identity, and Stratification in Education, Lecture notes of Socialization and the Life Course
The concept of socialization, focusing on its role in education, identity formation, and social structure. Socialization is defined as the process through which individuals learn and internalize culture and social structure. G.H. Mead's theory of symbolic interaction is discussed, along with the two stages of primary socialization: play and game. The document also covers Talcott Parsons' and conflict theory perspectives on socialization in education, as well as the concepts of human and social capital in professional socialization.
What you will learn
- How does education contribute to the socialization process?
- What are the two stages of primary socialization according to G.H. Mead?
- What is socialization and how does it occur?
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Socialization^ Education, Identity-Formation, &Stratification
Socialization
- “The process by which people learn,
and take into themselves
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culture
and
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social structure
Æ
Identity (Social Self)
G.H. Mead
- Socialization occurs via process of symbolic
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Interaction: “Behavior among two or morepersons, guided by shared understandings ofp
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meaning”^ x
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Shared understandings make interaction possible
G.H. Mead
- Two Stages of Primary Socialization
Play: “Taking on the attitude of ‘significant
Play:
Taking on the attitude of significant
others’”
Game: “Taking on the attitude of ‘the generalized
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other’”
Conflict Theory Revisited
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- Education is one component in the
“superstructure”
superstructure
- So its role in the socialization process is to:
ReproduceReproduce
Legitimate
- The “Hidden Curriculum”
Secondary (Professional ) Socialization
- Same definition and process as primary
Significant Others
Professors
Significant Others = Professors^ x
Human Capital:^ x
the knowledge and skills they pass on to new teachers
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Social Capital:^ x
relationships between professors and pre-serviceteachersteachers
Generalized Other = Educational System
- The socialization of teachers
Æ
their
socialization of other people’s children