SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lawrence Kohlberg, George Herbert Mead, Sigmund Freud

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

Document Summary

Social experience: the key to our humanity: socialization, personality, the lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn culture, a personal"s fairly consistent pattern of thinking, feeling and acting. Human development: nature and nurture: the biological sciences: the role of nature, the social sciences: the role of nurture, initially, europeans linked cultural differences to biology, behaviourism holds that behaviour is not instinctive but learned. Isolation can cause permanent developmental damage: d"s own opinion is that we"ll never have a solid answer to whether it"s nature, six researchers have made lasting contributions to our understanding of human over or nurture. Understanding socialization development: sigmund freud, jean piaget, lawrence kohlberg, carol gilligan, george herbert mead, erik h. erikson. Lots of q"s about him because b d likes him lots: brain doesn"t fully develop until age 26/27. George herbert mead"s theory of the social self: self, the part of an individual"s personality composed of self-awareness and self-image.