SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Virtual Community, Tangled, Erving Goffman
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Children being raised in isolated conditions (ex: wild boy of aveyron: suggest the ability to learn culture and become human is only a potential, to unleash this potential, you must undergo socialization. The process by which people learn their culture. This is done by 1- enterting into and disengaging from a succession of roles and 2- becoming aware of themselves as they interact with others: role: behavior expected of a person occupying a particular position in society. Importance of socialization: rene spitz watched children being raised in an orphanage vs. nursing homes. Realized that children in nursing homes developed faster because of more human contact. Social deprivation existed within the children of the orphanage, making them susceptible to diseases: to make us fully human, child socialization is vital without this, most of our human potential remains undeveloped. Rhesus monkeys experiment done by harry and margaret harlow concluded that emotional development requires affectionate cradling.
