Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Total Institution, George Herbert Mead, Ageism
5 Dec 2017
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How we learn the rights and wrong of society. Involves a culture across generation (older generation effectively teach you the culture of the current generation, and then you pass that on: nature versus nurture debate (both are right) Those who don"t get social interaction have smaller brains. So environment is going to influence that 30% A woman because she needs to carry a child for 9 months. She needs to attract a mate that is going to protect her during time of vulnerability. Isabell couldn"t talk, acting in animal like ways (she grew up isolated) tried to teach her how to be a human, by the age of 6 they can teach her. Jeanie she was isolated fro 20 months to age 13. Tries to provide her with human skills, she could not comprehend how to act normal. Argue she had down syndrome and that"s why she was locked up and that"s why she couldn"t learn socialization.
