Sunday, March 3, 2013

chapter 5 Socializing the individual


As intelligence, personality’s origin is unknown. How and way every individual has different interests, beliefs, behavior and values has puzzled many since it is divided in two sides nurture and nature. These are the answers for the question of the origin of personality in an individual. Through time sociologists have studied the isolated children who have had little to no contact with the social groups. To fix the damage to an individual or to add information to an individual’s personality to replace the undesired traits they are sent to an agent of socialization to change them to a certain standard of ideals values, beliefs and behavior. The idea that the agents of socialization works is based on nurture, and the social self origin ideas.
                                      
The debate of nature and nurture is based on whether people are mostly affected by their genetics or their experience. The heredity the traits passed down by generations through the genetic of the parents. Some of these traits are instincts that are uncontrolled reactions. In sociobiology the idea is that traits are what create what is called personality. Heredity is thought to have an important part in the development of the individual, the genetic aptitude to learn a skill could lead to a particular area of an individual’s personality. The order of birth can influence the decisions as well as the characteristics of parents because they affect the treatment change to the development of the individual just as much as the culture environment dose.
                                         
                The agents of socialization are in charge of making individuals that work in the society. These are family, peer group, schools, and the mass media that work after and when an individual is Resocializased, which breaks their experience, this can happen in total institutions. Well these agents are not part of the life of individuals feral children, children that wild or untamed, are formed. In an example Anna was locked in the attic with minimum social interact while she had little food like Isabella the only difference was that Isabelle was lucky to be rescued in time to survive and caught up with her age expectations while deaf, Anna died at an age of ten after her rescue and Genie had human interaction but it was painful.
                The social self of the individual theories are three. Locke made the tabula rasa that say that the experience creates the personality of the individual. Cooley theories that the personality is the result of the individual’s belief of the opinion of others this was called looking-glass self based on how we use others to create our personality. Mead created the role taking idea that states that what others believe one is what one becomes.

                Care less of how obtain our personality the mystery will be debated because there is always a large one that will have a say in the mater. If we are more biological than experience then hopefully we will find faster ways to fix multiple problems in terms of the personalities. This is incredible when seen from because the point of view of how it most feels when one remembers the transformation of our personality over the years. That is what make the question dose it change because of experience or because our instincts adapts to the situation.

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