SOC 1100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ascribed Status, Secondary Sex Characteristic, Achieved Status
11 Apr 2013
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The lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potention and learn culture. A persons faily consistent patterns of thinking, feeling and acting. Bio sciences role of nature: europeans linked cultural differences to bio. Soc sciences role of nurture: behaviourism holds that behaviour is not instinctive but learned. Sex researchers made contributions to human dev: freud, piaget, kohlberd, gilligan, herbert mead, erikson. Basic human needs: eros and thanatos as opposing forces. Id = basic drives: ego = efforts to achieve balance, superego = culture within. Critical review: studies reflect gender bia, sociologists note freuds contribtions. Cognition: how people think and understand. Use of a language and other symbols: concrete operational. Perception of casual connections in surroundings: formal operational. Critical review: differed from freud, viewed mind as active and creative, cognitive stages are result of biological mutation and social experience. Moral reasoning: the ways in which individuals judge situations as right and wrong.
