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The Impact of Socialization on Personality Development: Nature vs. Nurture

This article explores the fundamental role of socialization in shaping personality and cognition, contrasting the effects of nature and nurture. Studies of feral children like Anna and Isabelle illustrate the dire consequences of minimal human contact. Theories from prominent psychologists, including Freud, Piaget, Mead, and Cooley, are discussed, highlighting concepts like the self, social norms, and cognitive development stages. Resocialization processes in total institutions reveal how identities are transformed. Understanding social experience is crucial for grasping human thought and behavior.

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The Impact of Socialization on Personality Development: Nature vs. Nurture

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  1. Socialization

  2. Nature VS Nurture • Feral children

  3. Social experience is crucial in forming personality • Anna & Isabelle • Effect of minimal human contact • Without social experience, a child is incapable of thought or meaningful action • Institutionalized patient • Harlow monkey studies • Isolation produced permanent developmental damage

  4. Results of socialization • Personality • Thought • The social self

  5. Personality • Sigmund Freud • Id = Basic drives • Ego = Balance • Superego = Conscience • Culture • Humans internalize social norms

  6. Thought (Cognitive development) • Jean Piaget • Cognition (thinking)

  7. Piaget’s stages of cognitive development • Sensorimotor stage (0-2) • Object permanence • Preoperational stage (2-7) • Use of language • Egocentric • Concrete operations stage (7-12) • Logic develops - “Conservation of matter” • Formal operations • Abstract thought - imagine alternatives

  8. The social self • George H. Mead • The “self” comes from social experience • Self-awareness and self image • Generalized other • Cultural norms & values we use as a reference in evaluating ourselves. • “Taking the role of the other” • Imaging the situation from another person’s point of view

  9. Developing the “Generalized Other” • Imitation • Play • Game • Generalized other

  10. The social self • Charles H. Cooley • The Looking-glass Self • People see themselves the way they think others see them.

  11. Resocialization & total institutions • Resocialization • Radically changing a personality • Goffman = Resocialization is eroding an old identity, then building a new identity • Total institutions

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