SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Feral Child, Mass Media, Economic Sanctions
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Funcionalism: (us, mid twenieth century) dominate in us. The life long process through which we learn the vales and roles and expected paterns of behaviour appropriate t paricular social groups in a society. How individuals learn to live together n a ordered way to produce a coherent society. Appropriate varies across ime, place, social group, society. We learn over ime how to act appropriate in society. Ex) immigrants would assimilate into a chrisian society and forget their religion. Individuals learn t live together in an ordered way to produce society: society the inluences how peoples character and behaviour develops. Genie: girl found in california that wasn"t raised by humans. Mind of a baby but was 13. (creepy as fuck) didn"t learn normal human acions like walking, talking, feeling. Genie showed how we learn how to live in a society from infancy. If we don"t socialize then you won"t develop properly. Most oten indirect and accidental ad conveyed subtly.