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- emotional component
- behavioral component
I. SOCIALIZATION PROCESSES: INTERACTION & IMITATION
Method: compared infants (0-4 months old and again at 8-12 months) in
4 different settings:
- prison nursery
- toys
- visual radius
- radius of locomotion
- personnel
Findings:
- presentation of self
- dress
- appearance
- language
(2) Peer groups: learning the informal rules
Findings:
Identity:
Social relations:
Culture:
(3) Intense loyalty
How is it achieved?
Two questions:
Societies have different roles and expectations for men and women:
Question: assume that you will marry and that your husband will make
enough money so that you will not have to work unless you want to.
Would you prefer:
Komarovsky Intro Soc
Not to work
or work until
childbirth; 50% 18% 10%
decide later
whether to
return
Quit work
after birth of
child, but 30% 62% 67%
definitely
return
Continue
work with a 20% 20% 23%
minimum of
interruption
Conclusion?
b. What do women actually do?
Evidence from the Harvard and Beyond Study (Goldin and Katz,
“Transitions: Careers and Family Life Cycles of the Educational Elite,”
American Economic Review, Vol. 98, No. 2, 2008)
Education
No grad degree 69.6 50.4 27.8 50.9
Master’s 70.9 44.3 30.2 49.6
MBA 84.4 70.9 40.0 62.4
JD 82.5 64.1 48.5 64.3
MD,DDS, DVM 92.7 80.5 60.4 75.3
PhD 91.5 64.9 57.5 72.4
Not shown: physicians were the most likely of all the women to have
children, had more children than other members of their cohort, and took
the least amount of time off after having a child