Socialization is the process whereby individuals learn and adopt the values, beliefs and expected behaviors of a society. Just like in chapter 4 culture refers to the way a certain group in their society lives. Socialiation connects with culture because its a process to learn. Its important because when one interacts with one another thats how we develop similiar values, norms, and beliefs. (PG 99) Thats why young children socialization is important, because children see and hear everything so when the babies first walks and talks, that how they will act as well.
4. What were the functionalist and conflict perspectives on socialization?
Functionalism emphasizes the contributions of each part of a society. A part can be defined as family, …show more content…
What is symbolic interactionist Perspective and describe both past and current views.
Symbolic Interactionist Perspective in its simplest form views human interaction as a process of exchanging symbols as in words, signs, behaviors, that through socialization are connected with meanings and thus providing a way to interact based on those meanings. This is however, extremely cultural based because different things in one culture can mean something else in another. So when we communicate we exchange symbolic words that have a meaning attached to them and then we go from there. How those symbols are defined and how effective that exact process is can vary quite a bit.
If you call your best friend and say to them that they sound like something is wrong because of a tone you detect and their voice and they say they are just fine, but once again with the tone then you know because the tone not the words that they are witholding something that is bothering them. People do this all the time which eludes to the fact that nonverbal and verbal behaviors can have symbolic