Chapter 3: Socialization - CSUN

1 | Page Chapter 3: Socialization Chapter Summary There has been and continues to be considerable debate over whether nature (heredity) or nurture (social environment) most determines human behavior. Studies of feral, isolated, and institutionalized children indicate that although heredity certainly plays a role in the human equation, it is society that makes people human . People learn what it means to be and, consequently, become members of the human community through language, social interaction, and other forms of human contact. People are not born with an intrinsic knowledge of themselves or others. Rather, as the theoretical insights of Charles Horton Cooley, George Herbert Mead, Jean Piaget, Lawrence Kohlberg, and Carol Gilligan demonstrate, they develop reasoning skills, morality, personality, and a sense of self through social observation, contact, and interaction.

interaction is required for them to acquire the traits we consider normal for human beings. The process by which we learn the ways of our society, through interaction with others, is socialization. II. Socialization into Self, Mind, and Emotions A. Charles H. Cooley (1864-1929) concluded that human development is socially created—that our

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