SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Peer Pressure, Hidden Curriculum, Informa
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From last lecture: culture also shapes our personalities ties into socialization process. Instinctive behaviours can be attributed to reflexes and drives. Ex: sneezing into kleenex, coughing away from people. All behaviours are learned in interactions with others. Humans rely on social experience and culture to develop practices. The lifelong process through which individuals acquire a self-identity and the physical, mental, and social skills needed for survival in society (textbook) To ensure the survival and stability of society. To ensure the individual"s survival and development: personality and sense of self. Personality does not develop without socialization when you are young. Ex: at birth, all babies are the same. Their cultural influences will soon differ among them as they get older. Carried in backpacks from mothers, facing outwards from mother. Because child cannot move, sense of sight becomes primary sense of the world. The inuit child will develop an acute spatial awareness over time.
