Socialization and Social Interaction

Becoming Human There are two basic approaches to understanding how we develop our personalities – broadly defined as an individual’s relatively stable pattern of behaviours and feelings – and become members of the larger society These are the biological approach and the environmental approach, traditionally referred to as the nature vs. nurture debate o   The…

Erik Erikson and the 8 Stages of Development

Erikson’s theories are the best-known theories of personality and development. Erikson believed that personality develops in a series of predetermined stages. His theories are psychosocial, and not psychosexual. Describes the impact of social experience across the whole lifespan. In each stage of development, Erikson described conflicts that act as turning points in life. In Erikson’s…