SOC 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Socioeconomic Status, Delayed Gratification, Deindustrialization
16 Oct 2011
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An individual"s relatively stable pattern of behaviours and feelings. Debate between whether biological or environment define the person we become. The lifelong process by which we lean our culture, develop our personalities and become functioning members of society. The ways in which people interact in social settings, recognising each person"s subjective experiences and/or intentions. Uses evolutionary theory and genetic inheritance to examine the biological roots of social behaviour. Evolutionary psychology relabelled form of sociobiology that argues that darwinian inheritance can explain contemporary human behaviour. One"s identity, comprising a set of learned values and attitudes that develops through social interaction and defines one"s self image. An introspective composition of various features and attributes that people see themselves as. Mead"s term for the element of the self that is spontaneous, creative, impulsive and often unpredictable. Mead"s term for the socialised element of the self. People we want to impress or gain approval from.
