Culture &
Socialization
Announcements:
• Next Week’s Lecture on Tuesday 10/15/24
• No Tutorial 10/15-10/16
• Midterm Week of October 28, 2024: In person, handwritten
• Review Concepts, Theories, key terms, and practice handwriting to prep
• Assignment details on Canvas: Prep in Tutorial will begin this week;
Attendance is HIGHLY recommended
• Any Questions? Office Hours: Wed. 1-2pm AQ 6150B
Concepts to Review: Culture
Culture Counterculture
Refers to the value, beliefs, norms, A subculture that rejects conventional
practices, behaviors, and artifacts (or norms and values and adopts
physical things) shared by a group alternative ones.
*See Counterculture movement as ex
Subculture Popular Culture
The concept that certain groups or The culture of “ordinary” (or the
subcultures in society have values and majority of) people; the objects,
attitudes that are conducive to preferences, and tastes that are
deviance, crime, or violence. widespread in society.
Concepts to Review: Culture
Cultural Capital Social Capital
A body of knowledge and social skills that The network of social relationships
help people get ahead socially. among people within society, enabling
Cultural capital often includes learning the society to function.
about and taking part in popular Includes:
culture culture • interactions between people, opening
Includes: a door for a stranger, returning a
• How you behave grocery cart, returning a lost phone,
• How well you follow scripts giving directions, loans, or
• Think about how you are expected to positive/beneficial interactions
behave in class as students between people/strangers
• Etiquette, manners, what you wear, • Who you know can benefit you!
hobbies/activities, etc.
Culture Activity
● Groups of 3-4
● Each Group will be assigned a category:
○ NASA Scientist
○ Baristas at a Coffee Shop
○ SFU’s Women’s Basketball Team
○ Elementary School Teachers
○ Vancouver Symphony
● On Paper answer the questions on the following slide
○ PLEASE PUT EVERYONE’S NAME ON THE PAPER
○ This will be collected for attendance
1) What are the shared interests of the group/community?
2) How do they practice the/their culture? (Ex. Do they have gatherings? Do
they hold discussions? Participate in certain activities? Etc.)
3) Share an object that is important to the culture and explain why it is
important? What does the object signify/mean to them?
4) What forms of cultural capital and social capital are beneficial in the
culture?
5) How might the different theoretical perspectives (Conflict, Symbolic,
Functionalism, Colonial, Feminist) talk about the dynamics in the culture?
Break Time!
Thank you for your participation and engagement!! You are all doing Amazing!!!
Concepts to Review: Socialization
Agents of Socialization Anticipatory Socialization
A person, group, or institution that is The process in which someone adopts
responsible for socialization the values and behaviors of a group
EX: Education System, Family, Media, to which they do not yet belong,
etc. but they aspire to join
Identity
The unique combination of traits,
values, and expressions that makes
each person who they are.
“Looking Glass Self”
● A person’s concept of “self”, which develops from
interpersonal interactions in society and observations of
others
Three Steps:
1) We Imagine how we appear to others
2) We imagine and Interpret their judgement of that
appearance
3) We React either positively/negatively to others’ judgements
of us, as we perceive it
*How does this apply to you?*
Concepts to Review: Socialization
Primary Socialization Secondary Socialization
The first stage in socialization, The learning of the knowledge
during which children and skills needed to take part
develop basic values and in society beyond the context
norms and ideas of the self. of the family. (ex: school,
work, friends)
Re-socialization Total Institution
A process that involves a An isolated, confined
replacement of a person’s community that controls
values, beliefs, and sense of most aspects of its
self. members’ lives. (ex:
prison)
Concepts to Review: Socialization
Role Conflict Role Theory
A situation in which a person The theory that people’s
feels social pressure to fulfill behaviors are guided by
two different social roles that society’s expectations about
have clashing needs, values, or how they are to perform
expectations. socially defined categories
(such as mother, teacher,
• EX: Working parents, students and doctor). People’s decisions to
social obligations, athletes and conform or not conform to
education, etc. these expectations then
influence the expectations of
that role.
Socialization Activity- Masculinities Reading
● Groups of 3-4
● Using the Pascoe Reading Discuss the following questions:
1) What do you think the main argument of the reading is? How doe Pascoe make the
claims?
2) How did the students within the reading do anticipatory socialization to fit in with
the jocks?
3) What are the key agents of socialization that influenced the behaviors of the
students?
4) How did the students view their own identity and the social roles associated with
them? How did they experience and resolve role conflict that arose?
5) How does this article show how gender socialization affects men as well? How can
this socialization lead men into patriarchal norms?
6) Which theoretical perspective are the researchers using for this study? Explain how
they are applying it
Assignment Prep- Brainstorming
The assignment: Develop your sociological imagination by reflecting on your
own life and applying sociological concepts/theory to your own life related to:
Family, education, or work.
For this activity:
● Completed on a piece of paper with your name on it
● No electronics: supposed no phones, laptops, ipads, phones etc., no chatgpt
or other generative AI.
○ This is supposed to be about your life
● This is a Brainstorming activity and therefore does NOT need to be perfect to
complete
● This assignment will be collected as part of participation
● Please ask questions if you are confused on anything!
Assignment Prep- Brainstorming
With the person next to you:
● Brainstorm ideas on how you can use sociological concepts and/or theories that we have
learned to analyze your own life. What concepts or theories interest you? How could you
use these?
● Which three sociological concepts can you apply to reflect on a circumstance or event
from your life related to one of the following: family, education, or work? How? Why
these three?
● Example of topics to write about: Holidays, family income level and its impact, family
immigration status, work-school balance, school athletics/or subjects, a social pressure
you felt, etc.
Any Questions
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