Chapter 2-Socialization Flashcards
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Adulthood
Grown Up
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Age/Age groups
A number of people or things classes together as being of similar age.
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Agencies of socialization
The different factors that attribute to how we form our identity or our socialization. i.e. Mass Media, Peer Groups
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Belief
What one believes to be true.
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Child Centered
To refer to ways of teaching and treating children in which the child’s needs and wishes are the most important thing.
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Childhood
The state of being a child
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Coercion
The practice of forcing another party to act in an involuntary manner using threats or other force.
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Conformity
Complying with standards, rules or laws.
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Cultural Relativism
The principle of regarding the beliefs, values and practices of a culture from the viewpoint of that culture itself.
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Culture
The sum of attitudes, customs and beliefs that distinguishes one group from another.
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Customs
A habitual practice.
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Diversity
The inclusion of individuals representing more than one race, sex, religion, etc.
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Ethnic Minority
A group that has different national or cultural traditions from the main population.
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Adolescence
The period following the onset of puberty during which a child transitions into an adult.
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Ethnicity/race
The state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.
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Masculinity/Femninity
Sexual identity, especially in relation to society or culture.
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Feral Children
Human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, little or no experience of human behavior, care or language.
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Gender/Sex
Whether a person is considered make or female-biological differences between men and women in relation to their bodies.
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Globalization
The social, technological, political and economic interdependence and interaction between people, firms and entire economies around the world.
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Hidden Curriculum
The ways in which the organization of teaching, school regulations and routines shapes pupils attitude and behavior.
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Imitation
A thing intended to simulate or copy something else.
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Law
The system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and maybe fire by the imposition of penalties.
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Lifestyle
They way in which someone or a group lives.
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Manipulation/Canalisation
Parental attempts to make sure children play with gender appropriate items.
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Multicultural Society
The different ideologies, values and morals ranging from each individual in a society.
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Nature vs Nuture
Age old debate that explains human behavior.
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Norms/Values
Something that is usual, typic or standard/A persons principles or standards of behavior.
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Ostracism
Exclusion, by general consent, from a society or group.
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Peer Group
A group of people of approximately the same age, status and interests.
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Peer Pressure
Influence from members of ones peer group.
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Primary Socialization
Is the process by which we learn who we are and what our role in society is from people who raise us.
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Rewards/Sanctions
Something given in recognition of ones service, effort or achievement/A threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule
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Role
The function assumed or part played by a person or thing in a particular situation.
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Role Conflict
A situation in which a person is expected to play two incompatible roles.
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Role Modelling
A person whose behavior, example, or success is or can be emulated by others, especially younger ones.
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Secondary Socialization
The process of learning what is appropriate behavior as a member of a smaller group within the larger society.
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Social Class
A division of a society based on social and economic status.
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Social Conformity
Agreement between an individual’s behavior and a groups standards or expectations.
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Social Construction
How society groups people and how it privileges certain groups over others.
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Social Control/formal and informal
The regulation of individual and group behavior in order to gain conformity.
- informal: this is based on approval and disapproval from those around us.
- formal: controlled by organization that enforce order and control.
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Social Identity
A persons sense of who they are based on their group memberships.
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Social Institutions
A complex, integrates set of social norms organized around the preservation of a basic societal value.
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Social Interaction
The way people talk and act with each other and various structures in society.
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Social Order
The totality kg stuttered human interrelationships in a society or a part of it.
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Status
The relative social, professional or other standing of someone or something.
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Stereotype
A commonly held view about a particular group of people i.e. Race, Colour, Religion, etc
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Sub-culture
Groups that have values and norms that are distinct from those held by the majority.
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Value Consensus
A key concept in Functionalist views, where most of the people in a society share the same core values.
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Youth Sub-culture
A minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of members.
