SOC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Symbolic Interactionism, Role Theory, Role Conflict
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Socialization: the process by which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a given society and learn to function as members of that society. Limits of socialization: is there such a thing as human nature, anna conclusions. Her inability to develop past an idiot level of mentality is largely the result of social isolation . It seems almost impossible for any child to learn to speak, think, and act like a normal person after a long period of isolation . When she is compared with other cases of isolated children, the similarities. Seem to indicate that the stages of socialization are to some extent necessarily related to the stages of organic development . Theories of socialization are neither right nor wrong in this case, but simply inapplicable . Affected by various demographics (middle-class-structured growth vs. lower- income parents-natural growth: school.
