SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Reputation Management, Media Play, Body Image

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Nathan Young

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Unit 3: socialization: process through which we learn to become members of society. Key debate in the social sciences: nature vs. nurture, nature: locate the fundamental things explaining to why we do the things that we do, they are biological or from our genes, ex. They would use it to say how likely someone would (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)it a (cid:272)ri(cid:373)e(cid:863) Understanding human behaviour: looking for laws (in all the wrong places, instead we look at forces, patterns and trends. Socialization: the process through which we learn to reconcile our individuality with the demands, expectations and forces exerted by and within society. The exceptional nature of the human infant: we have an infinite capacity to learn, we are born with very few instincts, comparing to the animal kingdom, most of them already have intelligence when born, ex. A whale knows how to swim: ex.