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Chapter 4 Becoming A Member of Society: Unit II The Individual and Society
Chapter 4 Becoming A Member of Society: Unit II The Individual and Society
Chapter 4 Becoming A Member of Society: Unit II The Individual and Society
a Member of Society
Unit II The Individual and
Society
Socialization and
Enculturation
• John Locke, a British
Enlightenment philosopher, said
that the human mind at birth is
nothing but a blank slate, or
tabula rasa.
As a child grows, various experiences
imprint knowledge on his or her mind.
The human mind, for Locke, acquires
information about the outside world
through the senses, and this
information molds and defines a
person’s awareness and view of the
outside world.
Locke definitely did not believe that the
human mind has innate conceptions.
Socialization
Refers to the lifelong process of social
interaction through which people acquire
their identities and necessary survival skills in
society. It prepares new members of society
and trains them to think, feel, and act in
appropriate ways.
Considered the central process of social life.
Also a process of member recruitment and
replacement.
Examples of socialization
Child-rearing
The orientation of a student to his or her new
school
An initiation to an organization
Attendance in Sunday school
Cathecism for Catholics
Recruitment processes for political parties
Acquainting an immigrant to significant
Family
School
Peer groups
Mass media
Religion and State
Social and Historical Events
REMEMBER:
What are Social Institution?
Social Institutions – refer to
organized sets of elements
such as beliefs, rules,
practices, and relationships
that exist to attain social
order.
Elements of Institutions
Institutional approach – tells us that
social institutions are ordered sets of
rules, norms and beliefs or values,
that organized human behavior.
Relational approach – focuses on
compliance,
identification, and
internalization or acceptance
a. Compliance refers to the
outward conformity to social
pressure but privately
disagreeing with it.
b. Identification refers to the
individual adopting a certain
behavior because it enables
him or her to have a
satisfying relationship with
the members of his or her
group
c. Internalization or
acceptance involves both
public compliance and
internal acceptance of the
norms and standards
imposed by the group.
DEVIANCE
Is defined as a behavior that