The Individual and Society

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The Individual andSocietySocialization

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Socially awkward

• What does it mean?
• What might cause someone to be socially
  awkward?
• Describe the traits of someone who is socially
  awkward (do not name names!!!)

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Socializaton

• Learning the roles, statuses, behaviors, and
  values necessary for participation in society.
• Simply put being able to live around other
  people.
• Journal write what are you like sociallyhow do
  you think the group sees you??? (Try to be honest
  with yourself)

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Psychology review

• Personality sum total of all behaviors,
  attitudes, beliefs, and values characteristic of
  an individual.
• Instinct unchanging biologically inherited
  behavior pattern.
• I the spontaneous, creative part of the self.
• Me the self as social object.
• Example when your alarm goes off in the a.m. the
  I says roll over and keep sleeping, the me
  knows that you need to fulfill your role and get
  up and go to class.

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Social Psychology

• Where psych and sociology MEET
• PSYCH
• SOCIOLOGY
• SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
• Study of how an individuals behavior and
  personality (psych) are affected by the social
  environment and others (sociology).

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• This has absolutely NOTHING to do with Sociology,
  but I had to share it with you

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Socializationnature vs. nurture

• Does heredity give us patterns of social behavior
  or does environment dictate how we act socially?
• In other words, am I born an outgoing leader or
  does that environment/ atmosphere that I grow up
  in make me that way?
• Sociologists continue to debate this, but one
  thing is for sure nature is never enough.

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Discussion

• What is one social trait you think you have
  because of nature?
• What is one social trait you think you have
  because of nurture?
• GO BACK TO YOUR I AM WORKSHEET AND LOOK AT WHAT
  YOU WROTE. NEXT TO EACH, WRITE IF YOU FEEL YOU
  ARE THIS WAY BECAUSE OF NATURE OR BECAUSE OF
  NURTURE.

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WHAT IF

• You didnt meet people other than your parents
  until you were five, ten, or even fifteen?
• You were completely isolated?
• ANTHROPHOBIA FEAR OF PEOPLE OR SOCIETY.

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Factors that Shape Individual Personality
Development

• Heredity physical traits, aptitudes (capacity
  to learn), inherited characteristics, biological
  drives. Simply put, you get a lot of who you are
  from your parents.
• Birth Order We are influenced by siblings and
  whether or not we are first, middle, last, etc.
• www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/development/birth_ord
  er.htm
• Parental Characteristics The age of your
  parents, level of education, economic status,
  heritage, etc all rub off on you again you
  get a lot of who you are from your parentslike
  it or not.
• Culture the culture that we identify with has a
  profound effect on who we become.

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Isolation in Childhood

• What if you had no contact with others you were
  unsocialized.
• These children are called FERAL CHILDREN.
• Most recent case Genie
• Studies of feral children are central to the
  nature vs. nurture debate.
• What do you think which has more effect Nature
  or nurture????

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Institutionalization

• What happens to the development of children in
  orphanages or hospitals limited social contact.
• Some characteristics of isolated children.
• Within two years of one study half of the
  children had wasted away and died. Of those
  that survived, fewer than 25 could walk by
  themselves, use a spoon, or dress themselves.
  Only one could form complete sentences.