SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Consumerism, Mass Media, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 100
• Professor: Catherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

Rousseau: noble savage the best time for humans was before there was society to corrupt us. We need families to have and protect children. Durkheim: there is no such thing as human without society, everything about us (our names, our language, our personalities, the way we behave) is shaped by society, people without other people are not fully human. Children who from a young age have had little or no human contact: lost or abandon in wilderness, confined, denied social interaction. The wolf boy" never learned how to speak and had trouble walking upright. California girl locked in basement room from age 1 - 13. Father discouraged her from making noise and only made animal like sounds in her presence (mother and brother forbidden to speak to her) When discover at 13 she was unable to speak, walk, chew solid food, focus eyes beyond 12 inches.