SOC 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Santa Barbara City College
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Accommodation and assimilation: our schemas serve as forecasts for future events representing our past experience and being useful for predicting past experience. For example, if you"ve seen italian movies, or if you"ve visited italy, you might have come to the conclusion that italians sometimes move a lot with their hands when they"re talking that they"re very expressive. You will find this information about the italians in your. So if you meet someone who is italian, or even if you meet someone who reminds you of an italian person, you may well presume that they may gesture as they speak. Clearly, having a set of social knowledge to draw upon is extremely valuable. If we didn"t know or couldn"t remember anything about anyone or anything we"d done in the past, our life would indeed be hard because we would have to start learning over and over again.
