SOC 10000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: George Herbert Mead, Object Permanence, Sociobiology

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 10000
• Professor: Dukes, Warren

Document Summary

L01 debate the extent to which people would become human beings without adequate socialization. Socialization is the lifelong process of social interaction through which individuals acquire a self-identity and the physical, mental, and social skills needed for survival in society. Most critical during childhood because it is essential for the individual"s survival and for human development. To be human includes being conscious of ourselves as individuals, with unique identities, personalities, and relationships with others. Sociobiology is the systematic study of social behavior from a biological perspective. According to freud, human development occurs in three stages that reflect different levels of the personality: Piaget believed that each stage of development (from birth to adolescence), children"s activities is governed by their perception of the world around them. His four stages are organized around specific tasks: sensorimotor stage (birth to age two) children understand world only through sensory contact and immediate action because they can"t engage in symbolic though or use language.