文档介绍:I. Socialization A. Its Meaning and Importance B. Feral Children C. Total Institutions and Resocialization -video clip on military resocialization D. Basic Research Findings 1. Human (Biophysical) Development 2. Cognitive Development 3. Emotional Development
II. Culture and PersonalityIII. Differential SocializationlV. Role Performance
Characteristics of Socialization
process by which we e social
lifelong
based on social interaction
necessary for being adequately human
source of our sense of self
how culture is transmitted
source of monality and difference
What are feral children?
What do they teach us about the importance of socialization?
Total Institutions and Resocialization
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Quick Survey of Research Findings
A. Human (Biophysical) Development
Normal development can be suppressed
Normal development cannot be accelerated significantly
the “Mozart Effect” is unsupportedby replication research
Quick Survey of Research Findings
B. Cognitive Development
the work of Jean Piaget
a universal sequence of cognitive stages
essively more sophisticated rules of reasoning
not everyone makes it through all stages
the work of Noam Chomsky
an inborn universal grammar (language instinct)
Quick Survey of Research Findings
C. Emotional Development
there are stages of emotional development (Jerome Kagan)
emotional expression is learned
Culture and Personality
Franz Boas: culture, not biology, is what makes people what they are and explains differences between groups
Margaret Mead: developed and popularized these ideas
Basic Ideas of the Culture and Personality School of Anthropology
1) Culture is personality writ large
2) Plasticity of culture
3) Cultural determinism
A response to Social Darwinism
Mead: Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935)
Arapesh--both men and women were “feminine”
Mundugumor--both men and women were “masculine”
Tchambuli--men were “feminine” and women “masculine”
Biology irrelevant; only cu