SOCI 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Cognitive Development, Social Environment
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Social makes us human: social environment, the entire human environment, including interaction with others, feral children, could no speak; they bit, scratched, growled, and walked on all fours, isolated children, isabelle. Without language, there can be no culture - no shared way of life. And culture is the key to what people become. In general the child"s ability to take the role of the generalized other is a significant step in the development of a self: three stages, imitation, play, team games. Socialization into gender: sorting males and females into different roles, primary way that groups control human behavior, children receive messages about gender even in infancy. Agent of socialization: agent of socialization, include the family, neighborhood, religion, day care, school, peer groups, the mass media and the workplace. Resocialization: the process of learning new norms, values, attitudes and behavior, resocialization is voluntary but some, as with the resocialization of.
