SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Self-Awareness

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Socialization: the lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn culture. Personality: a person"s fairly consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting. The biological sciences: the role of nature; initially, europeans linked cultural differences to biology. The social sciences: the role of nurture; behaviourism holds that behaviour is not instinctive but learned. Isolation (being cut off from the social world) can cause permanent developmental damage. Nature/nuture theres no answer, when you are human and are raised in a certain way you have different ways that you have been molded. Six researchers have made lasting contributions to our understanding of human development: sigmund freud, jean piaget, lawrence kohlberg, carol gilligan, george herbert mead, erik h. erikson. Basic human needs: eros and thanatos as opposing forces. Id: basic drives o: ego: efforts to achieve balance, superego: culture within. Id and superego are in constant states of conflict, with the ego balancing the two.