SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Feral Child, Kingsley Davis, Speech-Language Pathology
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From a sociologists perspective, it is culture and society that make us human. We must learn the meanings we give to everything in society; food, housing, sex, and everything elsesociety is the teacher. Culture, which we learned about in our last chapter, is the lesson plans that society uses when it is teaching us these meanings. The nature vs. nurture debate refers to the ongoing discussion of the respective roles of genetics and socialization in determining individual behaviors and traits. Ultimately both sides do play a role in making us the people that we are. This debate is oversimplified and irrelevant because you cannot separate one from the other. Neuroscience events of your life cause changes to your brain. Neuroplasticity your brain continues to develop throughout your lives. Example: research shows that high levels of testosterone contribute to stereotypically masculine traits such as aggressiveness and competitiveness.
