SOC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Bangor, Maine, Feral Child, Erving Goffman
18 Jan 2018
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3. 1: social issues in the news (cid:862)lesso(cid:374)s fro(cid:373) charlie ho(cid:449)ard"s death,(cid:863) the headli(cid:374)e of the op-ed column said. On july 7, 2009, bangor, maine, marked the 25th anniversary of the death of charlie howard, an openly gay, 23-year-old man who was beaten and thrown off a bridge into a river by three teenagers on july 7, 1984. His three assailants eventually pleaded guilty to manslaughter and were sentenced to a juvenile correction center. Will never know why this happened but we can assume that the boys had learned to hate gays through community norms. We learn from our parents, friends and other parts of our social environment. 6-year-old child who has had no human contact since birth. Without socialization, we could not have our society and culture and without social interaction, we could not have socialization feral children: term used for children who have been extremely socially isolated.
