Title: The Role of Socialization | Boundless Sociology
Headings: The Role of Socialization
The Role of Socialization
The Role of Socialization
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Three Goals of Socialization
Nature vs. Nurture: A False Debate
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Sociobiology
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Deprivation and Development
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Isolation and Development
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Feral Children
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Depictions of Feral Children
Feral Children in Reality
Examples of Feral Children
Institutionalized Children
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Content: Natural selection is fundamental to evolutionary theory. Variants of hereditary traits, which increase an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce, are more likely to be passed on to subsequent generations. Thus, inherited behavioral mechanisms that allowed an organism a greater chance of surviving and reproducing in the past are more likely to survive in present organisms. Following this evolutionary logic, sociobiologists are interested in how behavior can be explained as a result of selective pressures in the history of a species. Thus, they are often interested in instinctive, or intuitive behavior, and in explaining the similarities, rather than the differences, between cultures. Sociobiologists reason that common behaviors likely evolved over time because they made individuals who exhibited those behaviors more likely to survive and reproduce. Many critics draw an intellectual link between sociobiology and biological determinism, the belief that most human differences can be traced to specific genes rath