1. SOCIALIZATION AND AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION

2. WHAT DETERMINES INTELLIGENCE? SUCCESS? MORALS? INTERESTS?  How does your appearance/height influence your personality and socialization?  Pretty girls are popular  Short guys have a harder time getting dates and promotions  Strong /athletic people are more confident

3. HOW MUCH CHOICE AND IMPACT DO WE AND OUR PARENTS HAVE? OR ARE OUR WHOLE LIVES DETERMINED BY GENETICS?  Are we born a “blank slate” or “tabula rasa” or do we start with some sort of genetic plan to our behaviors and personality?

4. ACCORDING TO SOCIOLOGISTS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS: A MIX: SOME HEREDITARY, SOME ENVIRONMENTAL. a. Psychologist Donald Hebb is said to have once answered a journalist's question of "which, nature or nurture, contributes more to personality?" by asking in response, "which contributes more to the area of a rectangle, its length or its width?“ Donald Hebb b. “Without language, there can be no culture—no shared way of life—and culture is the key to what people become.” We inherit many things biologically, but we cannot inherit culture.

5. Although "nurture" has historically been referred to as the care given to children by the parents, with the mother playing a role of particular importance, this term is now regarded by some as any environmental (not genetic) factor in the contemporary nature versus nurture debate. Thus the definition of "nurture" has been expanded in order to include the influences on development arising from prenatal, parental, extended family and peer experiences, extending to influences such as media, marketing, and socio-economic status. Indeed, a substantial source of environmental input to human nature may arise from randomly determined variations in prenatal development.

6. TODAY WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE "NURTURE" SIDE OF THE LEDGER - HOW THE PEOPLE AROUND US HELPED US DEVELOP.  "Social environment" - the entire human environment, including direct contact.  A fancy term for the people we interact with (directly or indirectly)  Why is this social environment important to our discussion of childhood development?  Because it socializes us - teaches us the culture of our society

7. SOCIALIZATION: THE PROCESS BY WHICH PEOPLE LEARN THE CHARACTERISTICS (KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ATTITUDES, VALUES, NORMS) OF THEIR GROUP  The process by which we learn the culture of our society  Now everyone in a society has some influence on you (the cabby that gives you a ride from the airport might teach you first cussword in Farsi; or that jerk who cuts you off in traffic might teach you to drive more aggressively on Route 80, or your parents might teach you how to speak, dress yourself, and use a toilet)  These influencers (big and small) are known as "agents of socialization"

8. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE "AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION"?  What influences have affected you in your life, and made you into the person you are today?  (values or norms, or different ways to act or do things, things that made you who you are)  Parents/family  Friends/peers  Teachers/School  Clergy  the Media  Role Models of all sorts  Celebrities, sports stars, etc.  If you have strong family/friends as role models and agents of socialization, the other effects will be more minimal.

9. WHAT ARE THINGS THAT YOUR SCHOOL TEACHES YOU BESIDES THE THREE R'S?  Share some stories of your own  Why do I love history? A couple of reasons- my grandmother’s stories of living in France during World War II; I had great history teachers all throughout grammar and high school  Why am I a romantic?  I have no idea

10. MASS MEDIA: AGENT OF SOCIALIZATION  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aKldqcC35o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aKldqcC35o  Even if you think that violence and sex on TV doesn't affect you, it might be subconsciously. It only makes sense. We act like those we see (The Elevator Experiment)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GSzCBv1-qA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GSzCBv1-qA  Why does this happen? Its human nature to a large extent - though also a societies' dedication to individualism and autonomy makes a difference as well.