Chapter 4
Socialization
Proper Manners for Dating
1. A man should not sit down at the table in a
restaurant until the woman is seated.
2. A man should always pull out a woman’s chair for
her and see that she is served first.
3. A man should help a woman put on and take off
her coat.
4. A man should always open a door for a woman
and let her pass in front of him.
Proper Manner of Dating
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What are proper dating socialization habits
today?
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Are they similar to those listed?
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Are they different?
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Why do think habits have changed?
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Is the change good or bad?
CHAPTER 4
LESSON 1 THE IMPORTANCE OF
SOCIALIZATION
Socialization= process of learning to participate
in a group
 Almost all social behavior is learned
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ExampleHusband and wife walking side by side
 Most important learning takes place early in life
 Psychological case studies show importance of
socialization early in life
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Without prolonged/intensive social contact, children won’t learn
basics such as walking, talking, and loving.
We can’t conduct experiments on infants to see the impact of
social isolation and the importance of socialization because its
unethical
How do we know socialization is important?
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We have seen it through experiments on animals
Harry Harlow: A psychologist who devised a famous
Experiment that showed negative effects of social isolation on
rhesus monkeys.
In one experiment, infant monkeys, separated from their
mothers at birth, were exposed to two artificial mothers—
wire dummies of the same approximate size and shape as real
adult monkeys.
covered with soft terry cloth
exposed wire body
RESULTS
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Showed that closeness and comfort were more
important than food
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Also showed how neglected rhesus monkeys never
exhibited normal social behavior, and as mothers
ignored, neglected or abused their own infants
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrNBEhzjg8I
Can we generalize from monkeys to humans?
Studies have shown that children raised under extremely
isolated conditions have little or no chance of ever being
socialized.
Case Studies on Isolated Children:
Anna and Isabelle
https://prezi.com/jdsahd5bsj9n/anna-andisabelle/
What can we learn from these case
studies?
The personal and social development associated with
being human is acquired through intensive and
prolonged social contact with others.
Common imperatives for socializing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAjKDTgYLQA