SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Learning Theory
10 Mar 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The ways in which individuals learn and recreate skills, knowledge, values, motives, and roles appropriate to their position in a group or society (delamater) Socialization is therefore the means by which social and cultural continuity are attained (clausen, 1989) Secondary socialization: learning appropriate behaviours and values within a specific group in a larger group (e. g. behaviours in school, not just in the early stages of life. Usually cut off from a wider community. Formal rules, formal aspects of life, formal way of life. Psychological: developmental theory: timing and sequencing of physical/psychological development in early childhood. Micro focused: social learning theory: acquisition of cognitive and behavioural skills in interaction with the environment. Discovery of the meanings common to the social group. Emphasis on the role of communication and cultural routines in leaning process. Social structure: socialization is organized according to the sequence of social roles that individuals occupy across the life course (e. g. son, student, parent) macro focused.
