socialization and social structure - leeyewon(이예원)

Intro

 

This week, I learned socialization, social structure and social interaction. It is interesting socialization. Cause it is how to interaction social network. We are living the society. So we are influenced by the society. There are equal something. – social cohesion, social control… but I think the most important thing is socialization.

 

Socialization

 

Socialization instills in individuals the basic components of personality that encourage them to voluntarily participate in society. People have common values, beliefs and norms to socialize. Infants have “hard – wired” biological needs for human contact. Children raised with little contact with others lack many social behaviors we expect to find in others. That is socialization. I think that our thinking, mind and behaviors are influenced by socialization (our mother and father or somebody else)

 

 

Anomie

 

I think that anomie is interesting concept. Anomie was defined by Durkheim as the breakdown of social bonds between an individual and their community. In his research he argued it leads to deviations like suicide. I thought that if our dominant norm disappears, our values will disorder. That explains the anomie. I mean that rapid social change are disappearing the dominant norm. So our personal action rule disappears.

 

 

Social structure

 

Social structure is composed of a web of interconnected social position. Social position is the position of an individual in a given society and culture. Each position is associated with various norms, as the society expect an individual in a given position will act in a certain way. For example, we are men of women, student, citizen and friends so on….

 

 

Social interaction

 

Social interaction is process of individuals mutually exchanging gestures, interpreting those gestures and physical props to project a particular image of oneself to other. There is interesting theory, “Looking glass self”. Our identity is shaped by reactions of others around us. For example, thing that our parents look at us, thing that my friends look at us and thing that our ex – boyfriend looks at me….. and so on.. That are different fact. Cause it is based on the symbols in symbolic interaction.

 

 

Discussion

 

Topic is that color pink is associated with girls why?

 

Our team thought that the pink is the one symbol. It means that when the time of enlightenment, the pink symbol meant men’s symbol in Korea. It is strange in current point. cause the pink is girls color! But that is simply easy to explain. The symbol is changing in each countries and generation. So it is symbol change. It is not strange. It’s just normal thing.