Soc 110

• Social interaction
• Language
• Love and affection

core of personality is concept of self-image, which we develop from the way others treat us.

• "The I and the me"
• Me= conforms social behavior
• I= individualistic: spontaneous, creative, impulsive

• Maternal separation and social isolation among monkeys.
• Monkeys prefered cloth over wire mother.

Isolated until 6

Indian feral children raised by wolves

Deaf and Blind

Did research on the effect on orphans who received little attention.

The process of interaction through which people learn what is necessary for social life

Going along with one's peers, individuals of a person's own status, who have no special right to direct that person's behavior.

Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.

process by which an individual learns to assume a role in the future. e.g. playing house. As its later stages, individual becomes more practical and less idealistic

the method of analyzing social interactions as if the participants were performing on a stage. We follow scripts we've heard before. we are different on and off the stage

an act considered by public consensu, or by the powerful, at a given time and place, to be a violation of some social rule

social condition in which norms are absent, weak, or in conflict

Blames deviance on society's failure to provide all people with legitimate means to achieve success. Helps explain robbery, but not white-collar crimes.

• social control leads to conformity, lack of social control leads to deviance. 4 types of social bonds:
• 1. attachment to conventional ppl and institutions (loving parents, making friends, enjoying school)
• 2. Committment to conformity (getting education, finding business)
• 3. Involvement in Conventional Activities (keep themselves busy)
• 4. Belief in moral validity of social rules.

law enforcement favors the rich, oppresses the subordinate class into deviance, and spread ideologies that the lower class is crime prone and dangerous.

powerful are more likely to engage in profitable deviances because of a stronger deviant motivation, greater deviant opportunity, and weaker social control

deviance is learned through interactions with other people. helps explain white collar crime

being labeled as deviant leads people to see themselves as deviant and live up to this self-image.

Three-line experiment on conformity. Nearly 1/3 students accepted majority's answer. groupthink

Voltage experiment

A group of people related by marriage, ancestry, or adoption who live together in a common household

• 1. sexual regulation
• 2. reproduction
• 3. socialization
• 4. economic cooperation
• 5. emotional security

Minorities in general emphasize kinship

Increased rapidly 50s-80s, but has declined slowly since.

• sharp increase last 3 decades.
• Also, number of single adults rising

England higher

USA has highest rates for murder and rape in industrialized countries.

utalitarian