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Socialization. Nature VS Nurture. Feral children. Social experience is crucial in forming personality. Anna & Isabelle Effect of minimal human contact Without social experience, a child is incapable of thought or meaningful action Institutionalized patient Harlow monkey studies
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Nature VS Nurture • Feral children
Social experience is crucial in forming personality • Anna & Isabelle • Effect of minimal human contact • Without social experience, a child is incapable of thought or meaningful action • Institutionalized patient • Harlow monkey studies • Isolation produced permanent developmental damage
Results of socialization • Personality • Thought • The social self
Personality • Sigmund Freud • Id = Basic drives • Ego = Balance • Superego = Conscience • Culture • Humans internalize social norms
Thought (Cognitive development) • Jean Piaget • Cognition (thinking)
Piaget’s stages of cognitive development • Sensorimotor stage (0-2) • Object permanence • Preoperational stage (2-7) • Use of language • Egocentric • Concrete operations stage (7-12) • Logic develops - “Conservation of matter” • Formal operations • Abstract thought - imagine alternatives
The social self • George H. Mead • The “self” comes from social experience • Self-awareness and self image • Generalized other • Cultural norms & values we use as a reference in evaluating ourselves. • “Taking the role of the other” • Imaging the situation from another person’s point of view
Developing the “Generalized Other” • Imitation • Play • Game • Generalized other
The social self • Charles H. Cooley • The Looking-glass Self • People see themselves the way they think others see them.
Resocialization & total institutions • Resocialization • Radically changing a personality • Goffman = Resocialization is eroding an old identity, then building a new identity • Total institutions