Practice question · Multiple choice
Dennis Wrong argued in 1961 that sociology had produced an oversocialised conception of the human being. What was the substance of his objection?
Hints
- Ask what a perfectly socialised population would look like.
- A theory that explains conformity completely has nothing left to say about anything else.
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C. If socialisation worked as claimed, deviance, innovation and inner conflict would be inexplicable, yet plainly exist.
Why
His target was a theory so successful at explaining compliance that it left no room for the obvious. People break rules, invent new ones, and are divided against themselves; a concept that treats internalisation as complete cannot account for any of that. He wanted socialisation kept as a partial process meeting a resisting person.
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