SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hidden Curriculum
1 Mar 2016
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Examples of social isolation: anna"s story 5 year old girl isolated, genie"s story 13 year old girl isolated. Socialization the lifelong social process by which we learn our culture, develop our personalities and become functioning members of society. Personality a person"s relatively stable pattern of behaviours and feelings. Nurture is nature: shaping human behaviour. Nature (biology) actions and feelings stem from biological roots. Nurture (socialization) we are a product of social reactions. Harlow"s experiment: six months of complete isolation was enough to permanently disturb development. Years of isolation left children damaged and after intensive rehabilitation effort only capable of approximately a normal life. Anna was permanently damaged, genie"s language remained that of a child. One"s identity, comprising a set of learned values and attitude that are developed through social interaction and defines one"s self image. Use of symbols allows humans to conceive themselves in relation to others.
