1. Explain, please, the meanings of “socialization”
- Socialization is the process in which we learn and internalize the attitudes, values, beliefs and norms of our culture and develop a sense of self. It also means to learn the roles and statues of society and the people around it. It’s equalized to being a giant learning process that someone is put through to find out who they are as a person. Throughout the process this person is learning how to identify themselves in his or her society.
2. Please explain the process of “looking glass self”
- The term “looking glass self” is a process in which an individual will use others like a mirror and base their conceptions of them-self on what is reflected back to them during social interaction. There are three steps in this process: 1. The imagination of our appearance to others 2. The imagination of their judgement of that appearance 3. The development of feelings about and responses to their judgments. In simpler terms, it is basically a process that an individual goes through to access their feelings towards
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Examples of total institutions are prisons, hospitals, mental hospitals, monasteries, military bases, and even boarding schools. During this process in an individual’s life they adapt to their surroundings and adjust accordingly. The first step is defined as “degradation ceremony”, which is where the individual is stripped of their former self, publicly stigmatized, and assigned a new journey. When a “law-abiding citizen” commits a crime and they are sent to a correctional facility, they are then a “criminal”. From son or daughter to student, to student to employee, or even employee to owner are all examples of where someone will switch roles to accommodate to their environment. The beliefs, values and norms that they were originally taught will be