Socialization

              Lifelong process of interaction through which one becomes someone - as a member of an association (family, neigborhood, tribe, gang, play group, work group, team, nation, etc.)

How does a infant become a person? What of our personality is within our nature and what comes via nurture, experience, suffering, formation and practice.

Natural development of indwelling potential

• The Seed, the germ, DNA - potential developing from a structured template.
• "Stages" - explanations working back from common results
• Freud - id, ego, superego - temporary resolutions at oral, anal, latent, phallic stages.
• Erikson - trust, autonomy, initiative, industry, intimacy, generativity, integrity.
• Piaget - cognitive development
• Kohlberg - moral development
• Kubler-Ross  -  a standarized process of dying well.

Social development of the Self.

Self Consciousness - early memory

• George Herbert Mead - playing and gaming, . The "Me" becoming the "I". The mental construction of a generalized "other" . Play stage, Game stage
• Charles Horton Cooley - the Looking-glass Self
• Erving Goffman - managing impressions, dramaturgical theory - the plays the thing
• Bourdieu - Strategies, will to power, whatever works

  Older Stories

• Latins - Homunculus/Pupilla - the little me that is inside you.
• Roman soldiers -suck face, Osculum
• Early Christians - Pax Christi,the scandalous kiss.
• Medieval wisdom - Conspiratio - breathing one another's life -along with Conjuratio - the ordained,
• Zeus and Terra gift of Cara