SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Stanford Prison Experiment, Social Forces, George Herbert Mead
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Chapter 4 p. 88-109 and chapter 16 p. 410-417. Their condition is not due to social isolation, as the ability to learn culture and become human is only a potential. Role: behaviour expected of a person occupying a particular position in society. The formation of self continues in adolescence, a particular turbulent period of rapid self-development. Summary biology sets the broad limits of human potential; socialization determines the extent to which human potential is realized. Because their needs satisfied immediately, they aren"t (at first) able to distinguish themselves from their main caregivers. However, social interaction soon enables infants to begin developing a sense of self. Self: a set of ideas and attitudes about who you are. Austrian psychoanalyst sigmund freud proposed the first social-scientific interpretation of the process of which self emerges. Noted that infants demand immediate gratification, but begin to form a self-image when their demands are denied.
