SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Kingsley Davis, Katy Perry, Social Isolation
16 Jun 2017
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Katy perry axed from sesame street performance; risqu out t deemed inappropriate for child audience and socialization. Two basic approaches to understanding how we develop our personalities. The biological approach (nature) - our actions stem from our biological roots. Environmental approach (nurture) - we are the products of our socialization social forces and social environment create human experience. Evolutionary psychology: examine the biological roots of social behaviour. Disregards the ability of humans to think before they act. Inherited characteristics are channeled, developed or repressed through the process of socialization. Anna had no glimmering of speech, absolutely no ability to walk, no sense of gesture, not the least capacity to feed herself even when the food was put in front of her, and no comprehension of cleanliness. She was so apathetic that it was hard to tell whether or not she could hear. And all of this at the age of nearly 6 years - sociologist kingsley davis,
