SOCI 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3.1-3.4: George Herbert Mead, Rhesus Macaque, Feral Child
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Nature (heredity) vs nurture (social environment: social environment contact with others. Feral child: wild children, could(cid:374)"t speak, bit, scratched, growled, walked on all fours, showed insensitivity to pain and cold, 1798 veyron, france. Isolated children: humans have no natural language. In two years, she reached the intellectual level she should have been at: was a good and happy student after rehab. Language is key to human development: humans have no instinct that takes the place of language, no language=no culture. Children tended to have low iqs: thought that they were simple minded. One-to-one adult child relationship taught them to talk: children who stayed in orphanages. Stayed in institutions, had low jobs, few were married: children who were cared for by women. More education, most were married, all were self- supporting. High intelligence depends on early, close relations with other humans: orphanage experiment in romania.
