Socialization
The most important instrument of socialization
What is language?
What is more than one?
"The other" is the most real in this type of interaction.
What is face-to-face interaction?
The first form of socialization in which individuals internalize the "generalized other" formed from interactions with significant others who impose their versions of objective reality on a child.
What is primary socialization?
Process of creating types of actions that “may be performed again in the future in the same manner and with the same economical effort”. This provides psychological relief from decision fatigue.
What is habituation?
These categories help us determine how to deal with others in interactions. They are easier to apply when people are more anonymous and more removed from our "here and now".
What are typification schemes?
This "second" form of socialization is characterized by the internalization of institutional or institution-based “sub-worlds”, or role-specific knowledge often rooted in the division of labor.
What is secondary socialization?
This mechanism is available to all in a social group, typifies individuals and actions, has historicity (i.e., cannot be created instantaneously), and creates social control through predefined patterns of conduct.
What is institutionalization?
The people (two groups) who came before us and the people who will come after us who are part of the process of institutionalization.
What are predecessors and successors?
These actors function for the institution as formal, anonymous, and interchangeable individuals that are responsible for carrying out secondary socialization.
What are institutional functionaries?
One thing we as individuals gain from institutionalization
This is defined as "the sum of typification schemes and the patterns of interaction they create". (Hint: it is one of our core concepts.)
What is social structure?
In what kind of societies is there a maximum change of success of socialization according to Berger and Luckman?
What are societies with limited division of labor?
The process by which things that congeal as shared recognizable entities for several individuals. They then have a common biography of experiences that are incorporated into a common knowledge.
What is intersubjective sedimentation?
This is the opposite of a face-to-face, closely percieved "consociate". It is a more temporary and fleeting framing of an external individual.
What is a contemporary?