SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Symbolic Interactionism, Sociobiology, Social Learning Theory
11 Apr 2018
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Two main arguments on how our personalities/ behaviour develops: the biological approach (nature) Sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, psychoanalytic theory (gender is viewed as product of human biology: environmental approach (nurture) Social forces and the social environment create human experience. Sociologists disregard the nature argument in its entirety. Children deprived of human contact have limited intellectual capacities, have no or limited experience with love or human interaction, and do not grasp language. Sociologists believe that social reality is constructed by people every time they interact with others. Socialization is the process by which people learn to become members of society. Process starts at birth and continues throughout life. Most intense period is infancy and early childhood. Our sense of the world and of ourselves is the result of social interaction. Social interaction includes all of the ways that people interact in social settings while recog(cid:374)izi(cid:374)g each perso(cid:374)"s e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)ces a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)te(cid:374)tio(cid:374)s.
