SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Demography Of The United States, Virtual Community, Intelligence Quotient
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Isolation from people like your own changes the way you think and act. People who are isolated cannot form intimate social relationship with other people. The ability to learn culture and become human is only a potential. We are who we are because of society and the area we are raised in. Socialization: the process by which people learn their culture: entering into and disengaging from a succession of roles, becoming aware of themselves as they interact with others. Role: a set of expected behaviours, or behaviour expected of a person occupying a particular position in society. There is convincing evidence of the importance of socialization in unleashing human potential by ren . He compared children who were being raised in an orphanage with children who were being raised in a nursing home attached to a women"s prison. Depriving the infants of social stimuli for mot of the day apparently made them less demanding.
