SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Behaviour, Media Play, Reputation Management

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

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Sociology: september 19th, september 21st & september 26th. The processes through which we learn to become members of society. How we learn to get along with others/learn expectations on us. We are also learning at the same time. The processes through which we learn to reconcile our individuality with the demand, expectations, and forces exerted by and within society. There is something about our biology/genetics that compels us to behave a certain way (ex: men vs women) (nature) We lea(cid:396)(cid:374) these thi(cid:374)gs as a pa(cid:396)t of ou(cid:396) so(cid:272)ializatio(cid:374) p(cid:396)o(cid:272)ess a(cid:374)d the(cid:374) e(cid:454)p(cid:396)ess it (cid:894)e(cid:454): (cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373)s, s(cid:272)(cid:396)ipts (cid:895) (nurture) Ph(cid:396)e(cid:374)olog(cid:455): if (cid:455)ou (cid:449)a(cid:374)ted to k(cid:374)o(cid:449) a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:272)ha(cid:396)a(cid:272)te(cid:396) this (cid:272)ould (cid:271)e (cid:396)ead (cid:271)(cid:455) p(cid:396)o(cid:271)i(cid:374)g the pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)(cid:859)s skull and reading a chart (nature) (discredited) Looking for laws (in all the wrong places) No laws of human behaviours (instead, we look at forces, patterns and trends. Our infants are different than other animals, because they are spectacularly helpless.