SUPPLEMENT - SOCIALIZATION

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ADULT SOCIALIZATION

  1. Primary socialization - individuals have mastered the basic information and skill required of member of a society.
    1. learned a language and can think logically to some degree
    2. accepted the basic norms and values of the culture
    3. developed the ability to pattern their behavior in terms of these norms and values.
    4. assumed a culturally appropriate social identity
  2. Anticipatory (Adult) socialization - process by which adults learn from primary socialization.
    1. adults are much more aware of the processes through which they are being socialized. ( e.g. engage in training or educational programs in which socialization is the primary goal).
    2. adults often have more control over how they wish to be socialized and therefore can mobilize more enthusiasm for the process.
  3. Resocialization - involves exposure to ideas or values that in one way or another conflict with what was learned in childhood. (college students leaving home for first time,etc.)

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Erving Goffman (1961) - major Resocialization occurs in total institutions : environments where the participant is physically and socially isolated from the outside world.

  1. isolation from outside world
  2. spending all of one's time in the same place with the same people.
  3. shedding individual identity by giving up old clothes and possessions for standard uniforms
  4. clean bread with the past
  5. loss of freedom of action.

*Note: relation to these type circumstances there is usually a major change in the individual along the lines prescribed by those controlling the Resocialization. (see e.g.'s - Rev. Moon, military, etc.)

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