SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Generation Gap, Old Age, Body Language

• 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 cultureal 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. The others represent a mirror in which we see ourselves (cooley) The looking glass self: our self image is based on how we think others see us, mead"s i and me: the i (subjective element) is in constant interplay with the me (objective element) Family primary socialization agent attention important bonding and encouragement household environment social status: school experience diversity gender socialization hidden curriculum. Rst bureaucracy: peer group common sense of self beyond family. Ascribed status: a social position a person recieves at birth.