SOC 2700 Lecture Notes - Homicide, Symbolic Interactionism, George Herbert Mead

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Scott Brandon

Document Summary

The law of similarity, the law of contrast, the law of succession in time, and the law of. Learning theories focus on the content of what is learned and the processes by which that learning takes place. Some of these learning theories briefly point to the structural conditions that give rise to the learning in the first place, while others describe these structural conditions more extensively. But in each case, the theories focus on the learning itself, rather than on the underlying structural conditions. Learning refers to habits and knowledge that develop as a result of the experiences of the individual in entering and adjusting to the environment. These are to be distinguished from unlearned or instinctual behaviour, which in some sense is present in the individual at birth and is determined by biology. Aristotle argued that all knowledge is acquired through experience and that none is inborn or instinctive.