SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Natural Experiment, Rite Of Passage, Sociobiology
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People who aren"t socialized don"t develop normally. Lack of socialization from childhood/ infancy prevents from proper develop later on in life. To develop normally, we need interaction with other people. Socialization is the process of learning culture and becoming aware of yourself as you interact with others. The ability to learn culture and become fully human is only potential, socialization is the ability to release that potential. Spitz- psychologist who did a natural experiment, compared children who were raised in an orphanage and a nursing home attached to a women"s prison: orphanage kids are normally isolated. By the age of 8-12 months, they were more prone to infections than the infants in the nursing home: by the time the children in the nursing home were 3, they were walking and talking. Our behaviour is not determined biologically rather sociologically. Biologists claim that genes account not only physically.
