SOCA03Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mental Age, Intellectual Disability, Symbolic Interactionism
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Knowledge is socially produced within a web of power relations. Marxists overemphasize class and ignore gender, race, sexuality. Surveillance and normalization serve to encourage/ discourage behaviours. Functionalist don"t want the structures to change and think its good to keep it the way it is. The process by which people learn to become members of society (berger, 1975). Look for examples (or lack thereof) of the concepts related to socialization that you"ve learned. Thinking back to our week on research methods, reflect on the ethics of the research done on. Locked in her room and tied to her potty chair in complete isolation over 10 years. Nurture environment can make up for the years she had been in isolation. Measured her brain waves and found a high number of sleep spindles. Sensitivity to temperature is influenced by our life experiences. Careful study of victor can help them figure out what makes us human. Etar took a risk to civilize victor.
