Sociology: Chapter 5-1

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Sociology Chapter 5-1

• Socializing the Individual
• Personality Development
• Standards 7.1, 7.3

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Personality Development

• Personality sum total of behaviors, attitudes,
  beliefs, and characteristics (Who we are)
• -How we adjust to our environment
• -Personality is developed over the course of a
  lifetime
• Children Quick Change
• Adults Slower change

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Nature vs. Nurture

• Nature
• -Heredity Passing of genetic characteristics
  from parent to child (Ex Hair color)
• -Instinct unchanging biologically inherited
  behavior pattern
• Laughter, hunger,war
• 14,000 Instincts

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Nature vs. Nurture

• Nurture Environment
• -Social Learning John B. Watson Psychologists
• Said that he could take 12 healthy infants and
  turn them into whatever he wanted
• Contemporary Reject debate BOTH Nature and
  Nurture have important impact on Personality
• Sociobiology Exception Study of BIOLOGICAL
  basis of social behavior
• Only looks at NATURE Edward O. Wilson

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Personality Development

• Birth Order People w/ siblings see world
  different than single child
• First Born
• -Achievement oriented
• -Cooperative
• -Cautious
• Later Born
• -Affectionate
• -Friendly
• -Creative

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Parental Characteristics

• -Level of Education
• -Religious/Moral codes
• -Economic Occupational background
• The Cultural Environment
• -Culture Strong influence on personality
• U.S. Competitive, Assertive, Individual
• IK Uganda
• Pre WWII Nomads/ Mountains (Strong Families)
• Post WWII moved to a more barren land
  (Competitive)

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Heredity

• Heredity Characteristics present at birth
• -Body Type
• -Hair, Eye, Skin Color
• -Aptitude Capacity to learn a certain skill
• Some CAN BE learned
• Drives
• -Eat
• -Other Biological

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Child Isolation

• Children who have suffered severe cases of
  isolation
• -posses few human characteristics
• -have no reasoning ability
• -no manners
• -could not control human voluntary and
  involuntary muscles

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Examples of child isolation

• Anna 1938 One of earliest in U.S.
• -was kept in attic w/o human contact
• -Died at the age of 10 w/o language skills
• Isabelle
• - Confined WITH mother in a dark room
• -Kept there for over six years
• Eventually caught up to age group intelectually
• Kingsley Davis Reason Mothers Love

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Most Famous case of child isolation

• Genie 1970 13 years old
• -Confined from 20 months in a small bedroom
• -Was tied to a potty chair
• -Wrapped in a sleeping bag
• -Beaten when she made noise
• Never progressed past a 4 yr old mentally
• Institutionalization 1945 study Rene Spitz
• 33 of children died from lack of love