CH. 3 SOCIOLOGY PROJECT

SOCIALIZATION INTO EMOTIONS

• Sociologists have found that, like the mind, emotions depend on socialization.
• Global Emotions:
• Paul Ekman, an anthropologist who studied emotions in several countries, concluded that
• everyone experiences six basic emotions: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise.
• He also observed that we show the same facial expressions when we feel these emotions;

EXPRESSING EMOTIONS

• Ways that we show emotions may also vary with gender,
• cultures, social class, and relationships with one another.
• For example, we express our emotions more openly if we are with close friends.

WHAT WE FEEL

• Socialization not only leads to different ways of expressing emotions but even affects what we feel.
• People in one culture may even learn to experience feelings that are unknown in another culture.

SOCIETY WITHIN US

• Much of our socialization is intended to turn us into conforming members of society
• and the influence of those around us causes us to act in a certain way that is socially acceptable.
• Socialization- society within you.
• Your experiences in society have resulted in a self that thinks along certain lines
• And feels particular emotions.

SOCIETY WITHIN US CONT.

• This helps to keep people in line,
• so does the desire to avoid embarrassment.
• Social mirror-
• the result of being socialized into a self and emotions.

LEARNING THE GENDER MAP

• For a child, society is uncharted territory.
• A major signpost on society's map is socialization into gender.
• Because we are male or female,
• we learn what is expected of us
• as we are nudged into different lanes in life.

GENDER MESSAGES IN THE FAMILY

• Our parents are the first significant others
• Who show us how to follow the gender map
• A study by psychologists Susan Goldberg and Michael Lewis shows
• that mothers subconsciously reward their daughters for being passive and dependent,
• and sons for being active and independent.

GENDER MESSAGES IN THE FAMILY CONT.

• Because of their gender, children will get different kinds of toys:
• boys get action figures, girls get dolls.
• Boys are expected to get dirty and play rough,
• while girls are to be daintier and more compliant.

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• Were the mothers creating those behaviors
• (the boys wanting to get down and play more, the girls wanting to be hugged more),
• or were they responding to natural differences in their children?

GENDER MESSAGES FROM PEERS

• The beginning of being influenced starts in the family
• The most powerful influence is "peer pressure"
• Melissa Milkie took a closer look into how young boys and girls reinforced cultural ectp.

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• 2 eighth grade girls reinforce images of appearance they think are appropriate for females.
• The Junior high boys were looked closely by Melissa Milkie

GENDER MESSAGES IN THE MASS MEDIA

• Something that guides us for learning our gender map is the "mass media"
• "gender roles" are the behaviors and attitudes appropriate for our sex.

TELEVISION

• Television reinforces stereotypes of the sexes
• In television shows males are more likely to be portrayed in higher pos.
• In comedies women are more verbally aggressive then men
• The shows that portray girls as powerful and skinny are Kim Possible
• These shows create dilemma for girls since this is impossible in real life

VIDEO GAMES

• reflect on the cutting edge changes in sex roles

ANIME

• Targets children
• parents are concerned with the violence and the dominant boys with submissive girls
• creates a new gender lesson

In sum male and female are powerful symbols that learning them forces us to interpret the world in certain ways.

TERMS OF GENDER

• children learn that different roles are expected by boys and girls
• social inequality: giving privileges and obligations to one groups of people while denying them to another
• gender images are important to understand