Social Learning

Social learning may refer to:

  • Observational learning (psychology), learning that occurs as a function of observing, retaining and replicating behavior observed in ones environment or other people.
  • Social learning theory (criminology), a theory of crime that asserts that humans learn deviant behavior from their peers.
  • Social learning (social pedagogy), a theory of education that acquisition of social competence happens exclusively or primarily in a social group.

Famous quotes containing the words social and/or learning:

    ... black women have always found that in the social order of things we’re the least likely to be believed—by anyone.
    Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)

    To raise a son without learning is raising an ass; to raise a daughter without learning is raising a pig.
    Chinese proverb.