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:
“The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the “outlaw,” the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.”
—Michel Foucault (1926–1984)
“You taught me language, and my profit on’t
Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)