SOC 302 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Materiel, Disney Channels Worldwide, Peer Group

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 302
• Professor: Hossein Haghshenas

Document Summary

Without language, there can be no culture no shared way of life and culture is the key to what people become. Control group of infants raised in orphanage compared with experimental group of infants raised by cuddling mentally-retarded women. Experimental group much more successful in life; apparently, high intelligence depends on early, close relations with other humans. Monkey experiments: infant-mother bonding is not result fo feeding, but intimate physical contact ; critical learning stage. Socialization: process by which people learn the characteristics of their group the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, norms, and actions thought appropriate for them. Self: unique human capacity of being able to see ourselves from the outside , the views we internalize of how others see us. Cooley"s looking glass self: we imagine how we appear to those around us, we interpret others" reactions, we develop a self-concept.