SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Surgency, Conscientiousness, Erving Goffman
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Process in which we are taught the expectations through society. Beyond a very few basic instincts, our experiences shape us entirely. 2 no one is inherently superior to anyone else, and. Learn simple ideas and then combine them into more complex ones. Locke was an english philosopher and empiricist during the enlightenment period (17th century) The birth of the human mind is a blank slate without data or rules for processing data. That data is added and rules for processing are formed solely by one"s sensory experiences the mind of the individual is born blank emphasizes the freedom of individuals to author their own soul. Individuals are free to define the content of their character character but basic identity as a member of the human species cannot be altered. The tabula rasa concept became popular in social sciences during the twentieth century.