SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Erving Goffman, Preadolescence, Hidden Curriculum

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Social experience: the key to our humanity. Socialization: the lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn culture. Personality: a person"s fairly consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting. The biological sciences: the role of nature; initially, europeans linked cultural differences to biology. The social sciences: the role of nurture; behaviourism holds that behaviour is not instinctive but learned. Isolation (being cut off from the social world) can cause permanent developmental damage. Six researchers have made lasting contributions to our understanding of human development: Basic human needs: eros ( life instinct, emotion) and thanatos ( death, aggression) as opposing forces. Id and superego are in constant states of con ict, with the ego balancing the two. Preoperational stage: use of language and other symbols. Concrete operational stage: perception of causal connections in surroundings. Differed from freud, viewing the mind as active and creative. Cognitive stages are the result of biological maturation and social experience.