SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Sleeping Bag, Childrens Hospital, Cardiovascular Disease

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Individuals learn, through interacting with others how to survive, function, and be a citizen. This is a life only process that enables us to develop our selves, roles, and identities: socialization happens differently in different geographic regions, ethnic/immigration background, gender, religion, and social class. Tied to a potty chair during the day, she lived locked in a room for 10 years. At night she was straitjacketed into a sleeping bag and placed in an oversized metal crib: genie weighed only 59 pounds and was 54 inches tall at 13. Nomore and she had a strange bunny-like gait. She wasn"t toilet-trained and couldn"t eat solid food. She was placed in children"s hospital in los angeles, she started to improve mentally and physically. She moved more smoothly and eager to learn new words. They were partially correct since she improved significantly: after 5 years genie"s mother forbade the team to contact genie because she claimed the tests" constituted cruel treatment.

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