SOCY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Jean Piaget, Moral Reasoning, Behaviorism
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Socialization- lifelong social experience where people develop their human potential and learn culture. Personality- person"s fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, feeling. John b watson- behaviorism: behavior is not instinctive but learned, people are equal except for their cultural patterns, human behavior not in nature but in nurture. Nurture is our nature: nurture matters more in shaping human behavior. Freud- psychoanalysis, biology plays major part in human development, 2 drives are opposing forces operating at unconscious level, create deep inner tension: life instinct (eros)- sexual and emotional bonding, death instinct (thanatos)- aggressive drive. Sublimation- redirects selfish drives into socially acceptable behavior. Jean piaget- theory of cognitive development: how people think and understand: sensorimotor stage- experience world through senses, preoperational- use language and other symbols, concrete operational- casual connections in their surroundings, formal operational stage- think abstractly and critically. Moral reasoning- what is right or wrong.
