SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mass Media, Feral Child
6 Nov 2014
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The lifelong process through which we learn the values, roles and expected patterns of behavior appropriate to particular social groups in a society. How individuals learn to live together in an ordered way to produce a coherent society. Appropriate varies across: time, place, social group, society. Individuals learn to live together in a ordered way to produce society : society then influences how people"s character and behavior develops. Direct and intentional don"t touch that say please and thank you . Most often indirect and accidental, and conveyed subtly. What we do is more powerful than what we might say we do. Rules that guide appropriate behavior in a given situation (behavioral expectations) Expectations of students: come to lectures, take notes. Expectations of professors: to be approachable, being prepared. Many social rules are noticed to be broken until actually happening. Social norms for sex: age difference (don"t have sex with children, privacy (don"t have sex in public, no incest.
