SOC101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Pension, Social Stratification, Old Age
11 Feb 2013
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Chapter 6: socialization and social interaction 10/18/2012 5:38:00 pm: becoming human . We are the only organisms that can think about thinking: how we think about ourselves and the world is important and dynamic area of research for social scientists. Personalities: an individual s relatively stable pattern of behaviours and feelings. Two basic approaches to how we develop our personalities: broadly defined as a individuals relatively stable pattern of behaviours/feelings, become members of a larger society. Sense of world and ourselves is held to be the result of social interaction. Encompasses all the ways that people interact in social settings while recognizing each person s subjective experiences and/or intentions. Men and women having very different brain structures. Women have 11% more neurons than men. Women s principal hub of both emotion and memory formation is larger in the female brain. Men have two and a half times the brain space devoted to sexual drive, as well as action and aggression.
