Chapter Five

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Chapter Five

• Socialization of the Individual

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Social Experience The Key to Our Humanity

• Socialization the lifelong social experience by
  which individuals develop their human potential.

Personality a persons fairly consistent
patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling.
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Human DevelopmentNature and Nurture

• Sociobiology the role of nature
• Elements of society have a naturalistic root
• Behaviorism - the role of nurture
• Most of who and what we are as a species is
  learned, or social in nature

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Human DevelopmentNature and Nurture

• Is it sociobiology or behaviorism?
• Its both, but from a sociological perspective,
  nurture matters more

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Human DevelopmentNature and Nurture

• Charles Darwins study of evolution led to the
  nature argument.
• Traits that enhance survival emerge as a species
  nature.

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Human DevelopmentNature and Nurture

• John Watson developed a theory called
  behaviorism.
• Behavior is not instinctive, but learned.

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Social Isolation

• Three children, Anna, Isabelle, and Genie were
  left in isolation and suffered permanent
  developmental damage.
• Social experience performs a crucial role in
  forming personality.
• Without social experience, a child is incapable
  of thought or meaningful action