SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cultural Capital, Pseudoscience, Erving Goffman

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Karyn Freedman

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Social experience: the key to our humanity: unlike other living species whose behaviour is biologically set, humans need social experience to learn their culture and to survive. Social experience is the foundation of personality: we build a personality by internalizing our surroundings. Socialization: the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture. Personality: a perso(cid:374)(cid:859)s fairl(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)siste(cid:374)t patter(cid:374)s of a(cid:272)ti(cid:374)g, thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g, a(cid:374)d feeli(cid:374)g. Personality development: as the superego develops, the child learns the moral concepts of right and wrong. If conflicts are not resolved during childhood, freud claimed, they may surface as personality disorders later on. The sensorimotor stage: the level of human development at which individuals experience the world only through their senses. For about the first two years of life, the infant knows the world only through the five senses: touching, tasting, smelling, looking, and listening. He asked several children aged five and six if the amount in each glass was the same.