After reading Chapter Three, the student should be able to:
- Define the components of the nature vs. nature argument and take a position that favors one side of the controversy.
- Discuss major studies regarding identical twins separated at birth, isolated and institutionalized children and studies of deprived animals and what they contribute to the nature vs. nurture controversy.
- Define socialization and apply the process to their personal development.
- Distinguish between the theories of human development offered by Charles H. Cooley, George H. Mead, and Jean Piaget.
- Appreciate the work of Freud, and although he was not a sociologist, apply his theories to a sociological framework of understanding.
- Summarize the research on the universal nature of emotions and the role of socialization in the expression of emotions.
- Describe ways in which gender socialization affects human behavior.
- Identify the ways in which cultural stereotypes of the sexes are perpetuated in the mass media and how peer groups use media images to construct ideas about gender appropriate behavior.
- List and describe the influence of the major agents of socialization.
- Understand how socialization shapes how members of Western and Eastern cultures think and view the world differently.
- Define the term resocialization and discuss the process of resocialization that takes places within total institutions.
- Discuss socialization through the life course by summarizing each of the stages, including the value of middle and later life.
- Explain why human beings are not prisoners of socialization.
