SOCL 3601 : Exam1 Study Guide
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Society is something that exists above and beyond the individual. These behaviors become habits; we are habituated into this behavior: b. f. skinner, revived behaviorism through operant conditioning with positive rewards and negative punishment, pigeons were dependent upon food from pavlov, behaviorism does not consider our cognitive abilities. There is a cognitive process that we use to analyze any stimuli and try to make sense out of it and what it the appropriate response. Friday, september 21, 2012: rational choice/ exchange theory, for exchange theorists every interaction between humans is an exchange (all human behavior involves some kind of exchange), we are going to receive something in return. If men define situations then they are real in their consequences: once we make a definition we act accordingly to that definition whether it is or is not correct. It is both on an individual and societal level.
