HREQ 1800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mass Media, Childhood And Society, Intellectual Disability

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1800
• Professor: Naomi Couto

Document Summary

The unique patterns of behaviour and mental processes characteristic of individuals and their positions in the environment. Sum total of how we think, feel, and behave . That a good deal of our personality and character is fundamentally influenced by the lifelong learning process (socialization): primary socialization: Social learning that involves the acquisition or transmission of the basic stock of knowledge essential to social interaction in a particular study: secondary socialization: The learning of more complex and subtle aspects of a society"s language, symbols, norms, values, folkways, mores, institutional structures, roles, statuses, and group interactive processes. In addition to socialization: scientists have attempted to determine how much of people"s characteristics come from heredity (dna) and how much from the social environment (culture). Observations of feral (raised by animals), isolated, and institutional children help to answer this question. These studies have concluded that language and intimate interaction are essential to the development of human characteristics.