SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hip Hop, Kathrine Switzer, George Herbert Mead

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100
• Professor: Mike Zajko

Document Summary

Hampers ability to develop human traits, handle life"s ups and downs, affects the way we age. Cultural isolation take someone and remove them from their social environment and then try to reteach them in a diff social environment. Eg. residential schools learning / behaviourist frame of reference. Socialization is a product of classical or instrumental conditioning. Stimulus (cid:314) response, then become associated with diff stimulus. Operant / instrumental conditioning learning to make a certain response because of the outcome that the response produces. Being praised for conforming with social expectations, punished for. Socialized being is an actor as well as a reactor the human infant is asocial at birth. Diff statuses + roles with related expectations. Constantly changing through significant / referent others. People are born tabula rasa (blank slate) Social self consistent of the spontaneous i and socialized me . Unpredictable + untamed behaviour (continues to exist, instinctual)