SOCI 2510 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Kingsley Davis, Personality Disorder, Old Age
10 Sep 2018
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Social experience: the key to our humanity seems to be as much an object as a person. Without social experience, a child is not able to act or communicate in a meaningful way and. Socialization refers to the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human. Humans need social experience to learn their culture and to survive. Social experience is also the foundation of personality, a person"s fairly consistent patterns potential and learn culture. of acting, thinking, and feeling. We build a personality by internalizing our surroundings. Charles darwin"s 1859 study of evolution led people to think that human behavior was instinctive, simply our nature. Psychologist john b. watson (1878-1958) developed a theory called behaviourism, which holds that behaviour is not instinctive but learned. People everywhere are equally human, differing only in their cultural patterns. Whether you develop your inherited potential depends on how you are raised. Nurture matters more in shaping human behavior.
