PERSONALITY AND

SOCIALIZATION
PERSONALITY
• Personality is a product of socialization comes
about as a result of the interplay of various
forces, which include our biological inheritance
or heredity, the cultural environment, social
groups and social structures, and past
experiences.
 Sigmund Freud
• Id
The original system of the personality and the matrix within which the
ego and the superego become differentiated. Everything psychological,
including the instincts which are inherited.
• Ego
The executive of personality and is the mediator between the needs of
the organism and the objective world of reality. It has the control over all
the cognitive and intellectual processes and tries to control the gateways
of action.
• Superego or social component
The internal representative of the traditional values and ideals of society
as interpreted to the child by their parents. The moral arm of personality
and consists of the conscience and ego ideal.
SOCIALIZATION
• Human Person + Functional Human Person = socialization
• Early years of socialization
• Infant – helpless without a group
• Develops awareness at the age of two
• Parents, especially the mother exert a great influence on
the attitudes of its members
• Children playing the roles of others and acting them out
Virgilio Enriquez
•Personhood = “Kapwa”
• One ceases to be a Filipino, and to be human,
without “Kapwa” because it is the foundation
of human values.
Agencies of Socialization
• Family
• Parenting Style
• Authoritarian
• Permissive
• Democratic
• Peer Group
• Schools
• Mass Media
• Church
• Workplace
HOMOSEXUALITY
• Sodomite – city of Sodom and Gomorrah
• Just an ordinary deviant behavior
• 19th century – medicalization of Homosexuality
• 1973 – the American psychiatric association determines
homosexuality not to be a mental illness.
• 1994 – World Health Organization (WHO) declares that it
is not a medical issue.
Two sets of question
• Why some people are homosexual? Sociological question
• Homo = not homo sapients = greek = man = the same
• Sexual = latin = greek genues.
• The question is wrong!
• Most people are heterosexual. No reason? Why they are attracted to same sex?
• Psychoanalysis – Sigmund Freud
• Arrested stage of development
• every male undergo homosexual stage.
• Deficient family structure
• Oedipus complex = boy fall in love with his mother.

• Simon Levay – studied a dead body of Gay and Straight and found a small
dot in the brain.
• How do we cure it?
The Bible & Homosexuality
1. Does the bible say anything about homosexuality as we understand
it today?
2. If does say something, what does it say and what does it mean?
3. Can the bible speak to and enlighten the confusion that
characterizes contemporary Christian dialogue about
homosexuality?
Does the bible say anything about
homosexuality as we understand it today?
• The context in which both testament condemn homosexual
behavior is a false assumption that all human beings
naturally share the heterosexual condition and that,
therefore, any homosexual behavior is a perversion of
“nature” and immoral. Since that biblical assumption is now
scientifically shown to be incorrect, the bible has little to
contribute to the discussion of homosexuality and
homosexual behavior, as we understand it today.
Church argument against Homosexual Acts
1. Natural law Argument
2. Procreation Argument
3. Complementary Argument
SOCIAL – CULTURAL CHANGE
• Social Change
• Is a process by which the structure and functions of social
behavior are modified and altered.
• Culture Change
• Refers to alteration or modifications in technology or the
distinctive way of life of the people.
Characteristics of Socio-Cultural change

1. Social change is a natural and inevitable part of

every society.
2. Social Change is sometimes intentional but
often unplanned.
3. Social change sometimes generates controversy.
4. Some changes are more important than others.