ENCULTURATION

AND
SOCIALIZATION
 SOCIALIZATION
•It refers to a lifelong social
experience by which people
develop their human potential
and learn culture.
ENCULTURATION
•The process by which people learn
the requirements of their
surrounding culture and acquire
the values and behaviors
appropriate or necessary in that
culture
1. It teaches impulse
control and help
individuals develop
conscience
2. It teaches individuals
how to prepare for and
perform certain social
roles.
 3. It cultivates
shared sources of
meaning and value
“Wild children”
•Children who, through
either accident or
deliberate isolation,
have grown up with
limited human contact.
 A sociologist from the late
1800s, is well known for his
theory of social self, which
includes the concepts of ‘self’,
‘me’, and ‘I’.
 The theory of the
social self is based on
the perspective that
the self emerges from
social interactions
Observing and Responding
to others’
interacting with opinion about
others oneself

Internalizing Internal
external opinions feelings about
oneself
 According to Mead, the
“self” is not there from
birth, but it is developed
over time from social
experiences and activities
 LANGUAGE

PLAY
GAME
 Develops self by allowing
individuals to respond to each
other through symbols,
gestures, words, sounds.
 •It conveys others’
attitudes and opinions
toward a subject or
the person.
•Emotions, such as anger,
happiness, and
confusion, are conveyed
through language.
•Develops self by allowing
individuals to take on
different roles, pretend,
and express expectation of
others.
•Develops self by allowing
individuals understand and
adhere to the rules of the
activity.
 •Self is developed by
understanding that there are
rules in which one must abide
by in order to win the game or
be successful at an activity
“ME” “I”
 “ME”
• Socialized aspect of the individual
• Represents learned behaviors, attitudes,
and expectations of others and of society
• Sometimes referred to as the generalized
other
• Phase of the self that is in the past
Me has been developed
by the knowledge of
society and social
interactions that the
individual has gained
 “I”
•The present and the future phase of
the self
•Represents the individual’s identity
based on response to the ‘me’
•The “I” says, OK.
The “me” is the social self and the
“I” is the response to the “me”. In
other words, the “I” is the
response of an individual to the
attitudes of others, while the ”me”
is the organized set of attitudes of
others which an individual
assumes.
IDENTITY FORMATION

The development of an
individual’s distinct personality,
which is regarded as a persisting
entity in a particular stage of life
by which a person is recognized
or known
SOCIAL CONCEPT

The collection of beliefs

about oneself. It
embodies the answer to
“Who am I?”
 SELF CONCEPT
•Self-construction
•Self-identity
•Self-perspective
•Self-structure
CULTURAL IDENTITY

•Is one’s feeling of identity

or affiliation with a group
or culture
ETHNIC IDENTITY
•The identification with a
certain ethnicity, usually on
the basis of a presumed
common genealogy or
ancestry
NATIONAL IDENTITY

•Is an ethical and

philosophical concept
whereby all humans divided
into groups called nation
RELIGIOUS IDENTITY
•Is the set of beliefs and
practices generally held by
an individual involving
adherence to codified
beliefs and rituals