Harvey Mobch Chapter 3 Summary

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In chapter 3, Harvey Molotch, explains how each human being has a unique personality, character, and identity. Molotch believes that the people and the contact we have with different people influences our identity. He also describes psychoanalyst Rene Spitz study with babies and small children in an orphanage to a nursery for the children of incarcerated mothers. While the babies were in the nursery, they were healthy and happy. However, the children that were in the orphanage they were abandoned and miss treated. This lead to the discovery that poor emotional and physical health was because of the of the way they were miss treated. Molotch also explains that humans want to belong in a group that accepts them. Humans hind things from people

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