{"id":66440,"date":"2015-04-09T08:44:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T13:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=66440"},"modified":"2015-09-01T21:37:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T02:37:40","slug":"sociol-learning-in-action-baby-gives-cpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/04\/09\/sociol-learning-in-action-baby-gives-cpr\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Learning in Action: Baby Gives CPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always a treat to find a good candidate for our series on babies-who-totally-learn-how-to-do-things. In previous editions, we&#8217;ve featured a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/12\/12\/another-example-of-socialization-baby-rapper\/\" target=\"_blank\">baby rapper<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/01\/11\/baby-preacher-an-example-of-religious-socialization\/\" target=\"_blank\">baby preacher<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/07\/baby-worshipper-an-example-of-religious-socialization\/\" target=\"_blank\">baby worshipper<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/12\/27\/babies-learn-how-to-have-a-conversation\/\" target=\"_blank\">two babies mimicking a conversation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These videos are entertaining\u00a0because they&#8217;re babies, but the message their actions send is more than just adorable. They remind us of how deeply cultural we are as human beings.<\/p>\n<p>In this edition, baby gives CPR:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JRoSAkeV_Qc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing natural about giving CPR. There&#8217;s no gene, no\u00a0evolutionary push for that behavior, no particular brain organization, and no special mix or hormones that can explain why that baby can mimic the steps of\u00a0cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Instead, that baby is <em>learning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Learning <em>is<\/em>\u00a0coded in our genes. We&#8217;re deeply and naturally flexible that way, able to learn whatever our particular culture needs and values.\u00a0Many people make biologically <em>deterministic<\/em> arguments &#8212; ones that draw a causal arrow from our biology to our behavior &#8212; but that&#8217;s usually wrong. More often, we are biologically designed to be <em>contingent,<\/em>\u00a0our behavior is naturally dependent on whatever it is in the world that we encounter.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always a treat to find a good candidate for our series on babies-who-totally-learn-how-to-do-things. In previous editions, we&#8217;ve featured a\u00a0baby rapper,\u00a0baby preacher, baby worshipper, and\u00a0two babies mimicking a conversation. These videos are entertaining\u00a0because they&#8217;re babies, but the message their actions send is more than just adorable. 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