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what do you go through in your childhood? (birth-12 years old)

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  1. care-free time of learning and playing
  2. grounded in culture
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what do you go through in your adolescence? (teenage years)

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  1. turmoil attributed to cultural inconsistencies
  2. adolescence varies according to social class
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what do you go through in your adulthood?

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20-40: managing daily affairs
40-50: circumstances are set, concerns over health, career, and family

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what do you go through in old age? (60+)

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  1. high senior population than teenagers (greying of Canada)
  2. more visible in everyday life
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what is gerontocracy?

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a form of social organization in which elders have the most wealth, power, and prestige; occurs in pre-industrial society

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what is ageism?

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prejudice and discrimination against the elderly

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what is socialization?

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the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture

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what is personality

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a person’s fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling

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what is ID? (freud)

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term for the human being’s basic drives

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what is Ego (freud)?

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term for a person’s conscious efforts to balance innate pleasure-seeking drives with he demands of society

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what is Ego (freud)?

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term for a person’s conscious efforts to balance innate pleasure-seeking drives with he demands of society

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what is superego?

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term for the cultural values and norms internalized by an individual

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what is superego?

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term for the cultural values and norms internalized by an individual

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what is the sensorimotor stage?

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Paiget’s term for the level of human development at which individuals experience the world through their senses

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what is the preoperational stage?

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Paiget’s term for the level of human development at which individuals first use language and other symbols

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what is concrete operational stage?

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Piaget’s term for the level of human development at which individuals first see causal connections in their surroundings

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what is the formal operational stage?

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Piaget’s term for the level of human development at which individuals think abstractly and critically

18
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According to Mead, what is the term “self”

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the part of an individual’s personality composed of self-awareness and self-image

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what is the looking-glass self?

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Cooley’s term for a self-image based on how we think other sees us

20
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what is the looking-glass self?

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Cooley’s term for a self-image based on how we think other sees us

21
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what is a generalized other?

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term for widespread cultural norms and values we use as references in evaluating ourselves

22
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what is cultural capital?

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material objects, values, and knowledge acquired by members of the elite culture

23
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what is cultural capital?

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material objects, values, and knowledge acquired by members of the elite culture

24
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what is a peer group?

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a social group whose members have interests, social position, and age in common

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what is anticipatory socialization?

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learning that helps a person achieve a desired position

26
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what is anticipatory socialization?

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learning that helps a person achieve a desired position

27
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what is mass media?

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the means for transmitting information from a single source to a vast number of people

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what is mass media?

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the means for transmitting information from a single source to a vast number of people

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what is gerontology?

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the study of aging and the elderly

30
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what are cohorts?

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a category of people with something in common, usually their age

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what is a total institution?

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a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society and manipulated by an administrative staff

31
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what is a total institution?

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a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society and manipulated by an administrative staff

32
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what is resocialization?

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a radically changing an inmate’s personality by carefully controlling the environment

33
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what is resocialization?

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a radically changing an inmate’s personality by carefully controlling the environment

34
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what is social media?

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media that allows people to communicate with one another to share information,and to form communities based on interests and goals

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