SOCI 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Social Environment, Intelligence Quotient, Hidden Curriculum
14 Dec 2012
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Feral children (specifically the wild boy of avalon ) are examples because they had no human interaction so were never socialized. Roles are the behaviour expected of a person occupying a particular position in society. In the orphanage they would also hang sheets between cribs so the babies couldn"t see each other interacting. The babies in the orphanage didn"t have social stimuli and the social deprivation also caused the orphans being more susceptible to infections and had a higher death rate than the babies in the nursing home had. And by 2-3 years old, all of the nursing home children were walking and talking and only 8% of the orphans were. The formation of a sense of self continues in adolescence, which is a particularly turbulent period of rapid self-development, but just one episode in the lifelong process of socialization. Agents of socialization include families, schools, peer groups, and the mass media.
