SOCL 2001 Chapter : Chapter 5
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Chapter 5: socialization: girl was abandoned by her parents and was raised by dogs, went back to being (kind of) normal. She doesn"t have an social skills because she wasn"t raised by humans. Her lack of self-awareness makes her more like an animal than a human. Started being raised by dogs at 2 or 3 up until around 8 or 9. Socialization - the process of learning how to interact in society by learning the rules and expectations of society. Argue that there are elements in our bodies: our bodies respond to the human environment. They affect each other - our bodies and the environment. Feral/isolated children (oxana malaya and others), early socialization, and critical period. Two sisters rescued by wolves; one died and the other later had trouble standing uo - couldn"t stand up straight but could stand. Early socialization is critical - oxana was able to talk because of when she started living with the dogs.
