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Conception Of Theories On How Society Makes Us Human

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Society makes Us Human Socialization is a learning process. Humans learn behavior, norm, attitude, culture, action throughout social interactions, activities, and experiences. As babies born, they have zero knowledge and experience. Therefore, they must learn such a thing that taught by parents, teachers, and interactions from basic needs. There are several conceptions of theories of Cooley, George Mead, Jean Piaget, and Sigmund Freud about individual and group societies. First, as Cooley wanted to understand better about human's behavior, he observed the behavior through the human nature by learning who we are from others' interactions. Therefore, he further established the theory of the looking glass self to reflect between individual …show more content…

Mead defines the self as the principle of self- awareness and self-image. The idea is that the self would not developed when babies born; nonetheless, the self could developed little by little through the social experiences and activities. Regarding to the social interaction, human should not only observing and responding to other's opinions about ourselves, but human also internalize external perspective and internal feeling about me. Therefore, the whole concept of Mead is I and Me. The I as individual that responses to the Me. And, the Me refers to learn behaviors, attitudes, and expectation of people and society. The self is also have to be achieved by these three activities: language, play, and games. The language that includes symbols, gestures, words, sounds, and emotions must facilitate responded to a subject or humans by individual's attitude, emotion and idea. In addition, the play that refers to the individual employs different roles to convey an expectation from others developed to the cognition on how one's feeling about myself in social groups. During a role playing, the self would also consciously internalize others' perspective to the one self. Then, the games are not only established by individual to attach and interpret the activity's rules, but the self must also further getting involved to the activity in order to win the …show more content…

The differences of these steps are that the id is simply meet the most basic part of their needs and wants. For example, a baby stops crying until he or she is fed. The ego is dealt with the reality, such as Sally's mother does not give her money as she asks, and Sally would think that her mother probably has forgotten it. Last, the superego is not only take place in reality, but it also add morality at the same circumstances. For example, although Sally does not get money from her mother, Sally still will not steal money or get upset with her mother. Therefore, the theory of these three parts have created the behavior of human

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