Ch 4 - Socialization

Question 1

Socialization

Answer 1

Process by which you learn the culture of your society

Question 2

Feral Children

Answer 2

Children who have lived in isolation from human contact

Question 3

Cooley

Answer 3

“Looking Glass Self”

We see ourselves how we think others see us

Question 4

Looking glass self

Answer 4

We see ourselves how we think others see us

Question 5

Primary Groups (Cooley)

Answer 5

Group with intense emotional ties and sense of commitment.
Very influential to the person
i.e. Parents, girlfriend, familt

Question 6

Secondary Group (Cooley)

Answer 6

Large and interpersonal with fleeting relationships

i.e. classmates, high school

Question 7

Reference Group (Cooley)

Answer 7

Provide standards for judging one’s attitudes or behaviors

i.e. media, role models

Question 8

Mead

Answer 8

• The self is made of the “I” and the “me”.
• Role Taking
• 4 Stages of Socialization

Question 9

I and Me (Mead)

Answer 9

I: impulse to act; unpredictable, innovative, and creative
Me: we see ourselves as others see us. “What would society say if I did this impulse?” (like cooler’s looking glass self)

Question 10

Role Taking (Mead)

Answer 10

Ability to take on the roles of others in an interaction.

• Young boy pretends to be his soccer coach and as a result sees himself how the coach does.

Question 11

4 Stages of Socialization (Mead)

Answer 11

1. Preparatory: Just have the I

Question 12

Agents of Socialization

Answer 12

Family (most significant), school, peer groups, work, religion, technology, and mass media
- Means by which you become socialized

Question 13

Agents of Socialization - Family

Answer 13

• Physically and emotionally dependent on adult members
• Learn family roles
• Institutional knowledge

Question 14

Agents of Socialization - Education

Answer 14

• Values and norms through hidden and non-hidden agenda
• unspoken classroom socialization like being on time
• Learn patriotism, competitiveness, morality, respect for authority, and basic social skills

Question 15

Agents of Socialization - Peers

Answer 15

• Adolescent focus

- Development of self esteem and self image, career choices, ambition, and deviant behavior

Question 16

Agents of Socialization - Religion

Answer 16

• Teaching fundamental values and beliefs that contribute to a shared normative culture

Question 17

Agents of Socialization - Mass Media

Answer 17

• TV (one way), internet (dynamic)
• Media violence can socialize children to acceptance of real violence. (immunized to the sight of violence)
• Less important agent
• Social media, fads and fashion, gender stereotypes

Question 18

Total Institutions

Answer 18

Isolates from society in order to get administrative control over lives
- Boarding schools, prisons, military, nursing home

Question 19

Social institution

Answer 19

established set of norms and subsystems with a social purpose

Question 20

Re-socialization

Answer 20

altering a behavior through total control of a persons environment

Question 21

Dramaturgy

Answer 21

The study of social interaction as if it were by the norms of a theatrical performance
- Waiter must have a presentation of self that is polite but in control

Question 22

Front Stage

Answer 22

We are social actors engaged in a process of impression management through props, costumes, gestures, and language.

If we diverge from “script” high-five interviewer = risk consequences

Question 23

Back Stage

Answer 23

Actors let down their mask and relax or even practice impression management

Question 24

Presentation of Self

Answer 24

How you present yourself to more favorable adjust impression management

Question 25

Social stratification

Answer 25

systematic ranking of people in hierarchy of inequality

1. Ranking
2. Life experience influenced by rank. Achieved = earned. Ascribed=born with.
3. Ranking very slow to change

Question 26

Social Interaction

Answer 26

Process by which we act and react to those around us