SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Vishvarupa, Sociobiology, Total Institution
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**oct. 20th link on website, based on what the website lists/old tests there too. victor, the wild boy of averyon: seemed more animal than human; was raised in isolation from other human beings. unable to form relationships with other people; develop very basic language skills. w/e their condition is may not only be a result of being raised in isolation. what this example suggests is that the ability to learn culture and become human is only a potential socialization must unleash potential. process of learning culture, becoming aware of oneself. compared children who were raised in an orphanage to children being raised to a nursery attached to a women"s prison. differences in ways in which the infants were treated: prison the infants were cared for, orphanage not so much, less human interaction (sheets hung over cribs; depriving infants of stimuli, said to make infants less demanding)
