HREQ 1800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Attachment Theory, John Dewey, Distributive Justice

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1800
• Professor: Livy Visano

Document Summary

Following rules, listening to others; learning to conform to the norm of society. Children learn at a young age about socialization. Refers to the ways in which people learn to conform to their society"s norms, values, and roles. Primary: the ways in which a newborn individual is molded into a social being. Secondary: occurs in later childhood and adolescence as a child is influenced by adults and peers outside his or her family. Adult: occurs when a person learns the norms associated with specific adult statuses. An understanding of child development is essential because it allows us to fully appreciate the cognitive, emotional, physical, social, and educational growth that children go through from birth and into early adulthood. There are a number of unresolved issues in the study of socialization: The relative strength of biological and social influences (nature versus nurture). How a person develops a sense of self. The social construction of the self: sociological approaches.