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• The old man was horrified when he found out
• Life never had been good since his daughter lost her hearing when she was just two years old
• She couldn't even talk – just fluttered her hands around trying to tell him things
• Over the years, he had gotten used to that
• But now… he shuddered at the thought of her being pregnant
• No one would be willing to marry her
• The neighbors, their tongues would never stop wagging
• Everywhere he went, he could hear people talking behind his back
• If only his wife were still alive, maybe she could come up with something
• He couldn't just kick his daughter out into the street
• After the baby was born, the old man tried to shake his feelings, but they wouldn't let loose
• Isabelle was a pretty name, but every time he looked at the baby he felt sick to his stomach
• He hated doing it, but there was no way out
• His daughter and her baby would have to live in the attic
• Isabelle was discovered in Ohio in 1938 when she was about 6 ½ year old, living in a dark room with her deaf-mute mother
• Isabelle couldn't talk, but she did use gestures to communicate with her mother
• An inadequate diet and lack of sunshine had given Isabelle a disease called rickets
• Her legs we're so bowed that as she stood erect the soles of her shoes came nearly flat together, and she got about with a skittering gait
• Her behavior toward strangers, especially men, was almost that of a wild animal, manifesting much fear and hostility
• In lieu of speech, she made only a stranger croaking round
• When the newspapers reported this case, sociologist Kingsley Davis decided to find out what happened to Isabelle after her discovery
• Enculturation/Socialization


  The process by which a human being, beginning at infancy, acquires personal identity and learns the norms, values, behavior, habits, beliefs, social skills, and accumulated knowledge of society through education and training for adult status appropriate to his or her social position
• Enculturation/socialization is a lifelong process that starts at birth and ends at death
• Enculturation/socialization


  Individuals not only learn the values, norms, and skills of their culture, but also acquire a sense of who they are and where they belong
• Looking Glass Self Theory (Charles Horton Cooley)


  • A person's sense of self is actually derived from the perception of others as we perceive ourselves on how other people think of us
• Role-taking Theory (George Herbert Mead)


  • The development of social awareness is traced to our early social interaction
  • Out of social interaction, sense of self emerges, which is composed of the "Me" (perceptions of what other people think of us) and the "I" (the independent, spontaneous, and unpredictable side of ourselves)
• Agents of Socialization


  • Family
  • School
  • Peers
  • Mass Media
  • Workplace
• Conformity


  The act of exhibiting the same as the behavior of most other people in a society, group, etc.
• Deviance


  The recognized violation of cultural norms
• Social Control


  The set of means to ensure that people generally behave in expected and approved ways
• Internal Social Control


  The socialization process that developed within the individual as we do things when we know it is the right thing to do
• External Social Control


  Social sanctions or the system of rewards and punishments designated to encourage desired behavior
• Forms of Deviance


  • Innovation (rejecting the use of socially accepted means to achieve success)
  • Ritualism (rejecting the importance of success goals but continue to toil as conscientious and diligent workers)
  • Retreatism (Withdrawal from the society and does not care about success)
  • Rebellion (Attempts to change the goals and means of society)
• Human Dignity


  Something that can't be taken away, each and every person has value, are worthy of great respect, and must be free from slavery, manipulation, and exploitation
• Human Rights


  Inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. They are "rights" because they are things you are allowed to be, do, or have. They are there for your protection against people who might want to harm or hurt you, and to help us get along with each other and live in peace
• Common Good


  An undefined and undefinable concept, unless taken literally, in which case, its only possible meaning is the sum of the good of all the individual men involved. When "the common good" of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals
• Socialization


  A lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn the culture
• Enculturation


  The process by which people learn the requirements of their surrounding culture and acquire the values and behaviors appropriate or necessary in that culture
• Goals of Socialization


  • Teaches impulse control and helps individuals develop a conscience
  • Teaches individuals how to prepare for and perform certain social roles
  • Cultivates shared sources of meaning and value
• Self (sociological concept)


  Develops through social interactions - a set of situations where individuals learn to assume roles and meet the increasing level of complexity of each situation