SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Behaviorism, Resocialization, Hazing

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Lindsey Freeman

Document Summary

Socialization is a learning process that involves development or changes in the individual"s sense of self: primary socialization is the socialization that occurs during childhood, secondary socialization is the socialization that occurs later in life. Too complex to be reduced to our own genes: what we are comes from too complex a genetic mixture for one gene to be an absolute determination. System of positive rewards, anything can be trained. Developed a philosophy he called radical behaviourism: creatures (including humans) could be trained to do anything through a system of positive rewards. All carrot, no stick (pigeon experiments) - all rewards, no punishment: wrote about this in his utopia novel walden two. Sigmund freud: balancing the biological and the socio-cultural: Believed that the mind had three parts: id: represents our unconscious instinctive drives: Eros (life) and thanatos (death: superego: represents our conscience. Agency is the capacity to influence what happens in one"s life.