SOSC 1800 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Albert Bandura, George Herbert Mead, Social Learning Theory
12 Jun 2013
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Children in canada today: chapter 2 summary social theories of. In canada, sociology of childhood remains on the margins of the discipline, with few sociology departments offering courses directly on or about children. Theorizing the pre- and non-sociological child: the familiar nature-nurture debate. 1700s & 1980s europe saw the emergence of enlightenment: marked by questioning of religious authority and rise of science, increasing emphasis on understanding how the laws of nature and social world works. Michael ghiglieri holds that boys and girls are hardwired differently and as a result they engage in different types of behavior. Those who are in favor of the nature side in terms of children, often hold that normal children regardless of the culture or historical time period in which they lived develop the same way and along the same trajectory. Erikson followed in freud s footsteps: his stages of development emphasized the socio-cultural determinants of personality, rather than sexuality.
