SOCIALIZATION AS A PROCESS

OF BECOMING FULLY HUMAN

•SOCIALIZE
• To be a full member of society an
individual has to acquire or learn all the
necessary roles and skills required of the
competent member of the society. The
process of learning these skills and social
is called socialization.
• Socialization is traditionally seen as a
one way process in which society molds
the individual to conform to established
social norms and rules.
 SOCIAL DETERMINISM
• Is a doctrine that says the individual have no
choice but to follow certain factors or causes that
controls their behaviors. This definition however
forgets ho individual also employ creative means
and ways to interpret the prescribe the rules and
norms.
• Feral children or Wild children
• Modern self is contained individual or bounded
masterful self this also called sovereign self.
• Kapwa is close to asian term notion of self
emphasized tradition and family values over and
above the individual choices.
• Sarili points not to man but to his being a man.
• Virgilio Enriquez 1992 the father of Siklohiyang
Pilipino or SP makes a find distinction between
Filipino sense of kapwa and western
individualism.
• In the dominant social scientific study of self the
traditional definition of the self and identity in
the west is suppose to apply to all the peoples of
the world. This approach referred by social
scientist as essentialism.
 EXAMPLE OF SITUATION WHERE
KAPWA TAKES PLACE
Pedro: gusto kong maging doctor para
makatulong sa kapwa
Pedring: gusto kong maging pulis apra
makatulong sa kapwa
Berto: gusto kong maging teacher para
maging kapwa
Juan: gusto kong maging kapwa, para tiba-
tiba
• Essentialist view of the self equates the self
with certain pre-given and unchanging
characteristics such as gender and sexuality
language and rationality for reasoning
capacity.
 AQUIRING A SELF THE PROCESS OF
SELF CONSTITUTION
• George Herbert Mead 1863-1931 an American
Sociologist and the father of sociological tradition
called symbolic interactionism. Are concept of
the self is acquired through used of symbolic
gesture.
• The earliest form of communication between
animals is called gestures.
• Gesture are instinctive behavior displayed by
animals in order either to respond to another
gesture or send signal to another animal. Human
language emerge when the individual is able to
take the role of other person by reflecting on the
meaning of the others gestures.
• The full development of the self therefore
require the acquisition of language the
capacity for self reflection using meaningful
gestures are consciousness and the ability to
takes into consideration the role expectation
of the others.
 The “I” and the “Me”
• One the self develops the individuals is able to assume the
role of others
• Significant others they are the individuals to whom a
person is intimate within immediate family members
relatives, peer groups, and friends.
• Generalize others the attitude of the generalize others is
the attitude of the whole community the “me” of the self
consisting as it does not social and interpersonal
perspective stimulate an instrument of social control and
conformity the “me” that takes its cue from the attitude
and expectation of the generalize others however those not
necessarily overwhelm human freedom or the capacity to
invent new rules and pursue other option.
 SOCIAL ROLES AND IDENTITY

• Personal identity is the most elementary type

of identity it refers to social classification of an
individual into a category of one it denotes a
unique individual self description.
• It denotes unique individual with specific self-
description drawn from ones own biography.
“No matter how your physical characteristics
changed, your personal identity is still the same
because that is the person you are right now
and the person you are many years from now”
• Personal identity refers from ones position
within that social field.
Example: The teacher ask the student to recite
during class.
ACCOUNTIVE POSITIONING
 Sex and Gender
• Sex: The state of being Male and Female
-FEMININE and STRONG/TOUGH
- Reproductive System ( VAGINA AND PENIS)
• Gender: Either Male and Female especially
when considered with references to social and
cultural differences rather than biological
ones.
 GENDER AND SOCIALIZATION
• Becoming a man/woman
• one of the most significant aspect of a persons
identity is gender. Sherry Ortner 1996 in her
classic essay on gender and culture. Women
traditional have been considered by many
cultures has closer to nature because of their
biological nature.
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