SA 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Old Age, Work Ethic, Ageism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Jakub Burkowicz

Document Summary

Socialization is so basic to human development we sometimes overlook its importance. The life long social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture. Social experience to learn culture and survive. A person"s fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling. Humans depend on others to provide care needed and personality development. Behaviourism holds that behaviour is not instinctive but learned. Heredity plays a part in intelligence, musical and artistic talent and personality. Being cut off from the social world is very harmful to human beings. Adults very important to cradle infants affectionately. Id- the human being"s basic drives, unconscious and demand immediate satisfaction. Ego- a person"s conscious effort to balance innote pleasure seeking drives with the demands of society. Superego- the cultural norms and values internalized by an individual. Sublimation- changes selfish drives into socially acceptable behaviours. Level of human development at which individuals experience the world only through their senses.