SOC 1100 Study Guide - Final Guide: George Herbert Mead, Lawrence Kohlberg, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Socialization (p. 110) the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture. Personality (p. 110) a person"s fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking and feeling. Socialization develops our humanity as well as our particular personalities. The importance of socialization is seen in the fact that extended periods of social isolation result in permanent damage (as in the cases of anna, isabelle and genie) p. 110- Socialization is a matter of nurture rather than nature. A century ago, most people thought human behaviour resulted from biological instinct. For human beings, it is our nature to nurture. Id (p. 112) freud"s term for the human being"s basic drives. Ego (p. 112) freud"s term for a person"s conscious efforts to balance innate pleasure seeking drives with the demands of society. Superego (p. 113) freud"s term for the cultural values and norms internalized by an individual.