SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Becoming Human, Cultural Capital, Unconscious Mind
21 Aug 2013
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2 basic approaches to develop personality: personality: individual"s relatively stable pattern of behaviours and feelings, biological approach. Our actions and feelings stem from our biological roots: environmental approach. Lifelong process by which we learn our culture, develop personality and become functioning members of society. Social interaction encompasses all of ways people interact in social settings while recognizing each person"s subjective experiences and intentions. Most of behaviour determined by genetic makeup: sociologists believe nurture is more important. Women better at expressing emotions and remembering details. Men have 2. 5 times brain space devoted for sexual drive, action and aggression. Evolutionary psychology: darwinian inheritance can explain contemporary human behaviour: a relabeled form of sociobiology, men ages 16 20 have sense of invincibility. Empirical support for overall assertion that human behaviour determined by genetics remain contentious: limited support in social sciences. Effects of social isolation: children taught to do things, social reality is constructed by people every time they interact with others.
