Unit+V+Socialization



After reading Chapter Five, you should be able to:
 * Define //socialization//.
 * Examine the “nature versus nurture” debate and state how most contemporary sociologists would resolve it.
 * Summarize research findings on the effects of extreme social isolation on children.
 * Outline Freud’s model of personality development.
 * Identify and describe Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development.
 * Identify and describe Kohlberg’s three stages of childhood moral development.
 * Examine moral development as researched by Gilligan.
 * Define Mead’s theory of the social self and outline the development of the self.
 * Identify and describe Erikson’s eight stages of development.
 * Examine the role of the family, the school, peer groups, and the mass media in the socialization process.
 * Discuss how socialization varies at different stages along the life course.
 * Describe the two-stage process of resocialization that occurs in total institutions.

=//Shoebox Project//=

//Accodring to Erik Erikson, teens are undergoing a crisis of identity versus role confusion during a period that includes the high school years. Through this conflict, teens begin identifying who they ARE in the context of the environment in which they live. For this project, you will critically evaluate the reciprocal relationship between your identity and your environment. Take an average sized shoe box, and consider it to be a metaphore for your life. Decorate the outside of the box with images, symbols, words, colors,etc. that represent how you believe the world sees YOU. Decorate the inside with images, symbols, words, colors etc. that represent how YOU see you. What is important to you? What is the 'ideal' you that you hope to continue developing and growing into throughout the next several decades?//

If you are uncomfortable sharing some of the more personal pieces from your project, let me know. Most students find this project to be exceptionally meaningful, thought provoking, and enlightening about both themselves and their classmates. We will begin presenting shoe boxes in class Monday 4/19/2010.

In groups of 4 discuss the following questions: 1) Which character in the film did you identify with and why? 2) Use these terms to describe the dynamic of the film: paradigm shift, socialization, in group, out group, agents of socialization, resocialization. 3) If you had to cast the film with current students at NRHS... 4) How has life for teens changed since this film was written in 1982?

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