SOCL 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Environment, Harold Garfinkel, Body Image
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Children assumed to be raised by wild animals away from humans. Example: raised by wolves, jungle book, tarzan a. ii. Skeels and dye wanted to test the hypothesis of children in orphanages have lower iq"s a. i. 1. b. The findings were those who had close relations with humans developed higher intelligence a. i. 2. The longer the children lack stimulating interaction the more a. ii. difficult they have intellectually. The process by which people learn the characteristics of their group the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, norms, and actions thought appropriate for them a. i. 2. Concluded that producing a self is an essential part of how society makes us human a. i. 1. a. i. Sense of self develops from human interaction a. i. 1. b. The unique human capacity of being able to see ourselves from the outside; how we think others see us a. i. 1. b. Process by which self develops through internalizing other"s reactions towards us a. i. 1. a. ii. We imagine how we appear to those around.
