SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Inequality, Crystallization, Sigmund Freud
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Social isolation and the crystallization of self-identity: children who are isolated after birth have a hard time forming intimate social relationships with others. But the(cid:455) do(cid:374)(cid:859)t al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s (cid:449)o(cid:396)k ha(cid:374)d i(cid:374) ha(cid:374)d to produce happy, well-adjusted adults: biology sets the broad limits of human potential; socialization determines the extent to which human potential is realized. Theories of childhood socialization: social interaction enables infants to bein developing a self-image or sense of self, the self consists of your ideas and attitudes about who you are. Freud: sigmund freud proposed the firs social-scientific interpretation of the process by which the self emerges. Noted that infants demand immediate gratification but begin to form a self-image when their demands are denied: child them develops a sense of appropriate behaviour, differentiates between right and wrong. In addition, psychological mechanism develops that normally balances the pleasure-seeking and restraining components of the self. This allows us to imagine how we appear to them.
