SA 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Research On The Effects Of Violence In Mass Media, Reform School, Hazing

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Suzanna Crage

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Introduction: socialization is a learning process (page 91) Socialization is an area of sociological study that brings the discipline close to psychology. Socialization is a learning process, one that involves learning how to be a social person in a given society, and it brings changes in an individual"s sense of self. Primary socialization: the earliest socialization that a child receives. Secondary socialization: socialization that occurs later than the primary socialization in the life of a child: determinism: nature versus nurture (page 91) Determinism: the belief that personal characteristics, including behaviour and attitudes, are shaped by forces beyond the control, or agency, of the individual. Agency: the capacity to influence what happens in one"s life. Biological determinism states that the greater part of what we are is determined by our roughly. Xyy males: men and boys who differ from the normal xy chromosome pattern.