Transcription of Chapter 3: Socialization - CSUN
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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.
Chapter 3: Socialization ... job, and/or life situation to another, they often have to undergo resocialization—the process of learning new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors. Special settings that require intense resocialization, such as …
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