SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Observational Learning, Foster Care, 6 Years

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Paul Glavin

Document Summary

Nature vs. nurture debate (ex. language - capability from birth or learned?) The ways in which individuals learn and recreate skills, knowledge, values, motives, and roles appropriate to their position in a group or society (delamater) Functional role for socialization - process in which we learn to be functioning members of society. Socialization is therefore the means by which social and cultural continuity are attained" (clausen 1989) Pass culture to next generations, stability in social norms/patterns that have existed for centuries, but changes as we interpret it in separate ways. Childhood development - learning attitudes of values, actions appropriate to them as member of a particular small group or culture. Learning appropriate ways to behave of other smaller groups (ex. outside of home - schools, in profession) Strict norms of how to act in professions. Takes place before entering sphere you"re going to be shaped by, anticipate entering a role and how it would feel/expectations.