Hurley
SYG 2000

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I. The Importance of Social Experience
.....A. Human Development
..........1. Socialization
..........2. Personality
.....B. Social Isolation
.........1. Effect of Social Isolation on Nonhuman Primates --
.............Harry & Margaret Harlow's Experiments
.........2. Effect of Social Isolation on Children
.................a. Anna & Isabelle [Kingsley Davis' study]
.................b. Genie

II. Understanding the Socialization Process
.....A. Sigmund Freud: The elements of Personality
..........1. Basic Human Needs
...............a. Eros
...............b. Thanatos -- Starvation in Africa
..........2.Freud's Model of Personality
...............a. Superego
...............b. Ego
...............c. Id
.....B. Jean Piaget: Cognitive Development
..........1. Sensorimotor Stage
..........2. Preoperational Stage
..........3. Concrete Operational Stage
..........4. Formal Operational Stage
.....C. Lawrence Kohlberg: Moral Development
..........1. Preconventional Level
................a. Punnishment Avoidance Motivation
................b. Pleasure Gratification Motivation
..........2. Conventional Level
...............a. Disapproval Avoidance Motivation
...............b. Approval Gratification Motivation
..........3. Postconventional Level
..............a. Social Contract Motivation
..............b. Morality Motivation
..............c. Justice motivation
.....D. Carol Gilligan: The Gender Factor in Moral Development
..........1. Males use a Justice and Team oriented perspective
..........2. Females use a Care and Responsibility perspective
.....E. George Herbert Mead: The Social Self
..........1. The Self
..............a. Self Awareness
..............b. Self Image
..........2. Charles Horton Cooley's 'Looking-Glass Self'
..............a. See
..............b. Think
..............c. Feel
..........3. The 'I' and the 'Me'
...............a. Significant Others
...............b. Generalized Others
..........4. Development of Self through Play
...............a. Imitation
...............b. Play
...............c. Games

III. Agencies of Socialization
.....A. The Family
.....B. Schooling [Conditioning for Mass Society]
.....C. The Peer Group
.....D. The Mass Media [How do the Media portray Minorities?]
.....E. Voluntary Associations & Career

IV. Socialization and the Life Course
.....A. Childhood
.....B. Adolescence
.....C. Adulthood
..........1. Early Adulthood
..........2. Middle Adulthood
.....D. Old Age
.....E. Dying -- Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
..........1. Denial
..........2. Anger
..........3. Negotiation
..........4. Resignation
..........5. Acceptance
.....F. An Overview of Life
..........1. Resocialization: Total Institutions
................a. Military
................b. Prisons -- brutality & Dehumanization
....G. Socialization and Human Freedom
..........Are we free within society?

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