Chapter 2-Socialization

Question 1

Define:

Adulthood

Answer 1

Grown Up

Question 2

Define:

Age/Age groups

Answer 2

A number of people or things classes together as being of similar age.

Question 3

Define:

Agencies of socialization

Answer 3

The different factors that attribute to how we form our identity or our socialization. i.e. Mass Media, Peer Groups

Question 4

Define:

Belief

Answer 4

What one believes to be true.

Question 5

Define:

Child Centered

Answer 5

To refer to ways of teaching and treating children in which the child’s needs and wishes are the most important thing.

Question 6

Define:

Childhood

Answer 6

The state of being a child

Question 7

Define:

Coercion

Answer 7

The practice of forcing another party to act in an involuntary manner using threats or other force.

Question 8

Define:

Conformity

Answer 8

Complying with standards, rules or laws.

Question 9

Define:

Cultural Relativism

Answer 9

The principle of regarding the beliefs, values and practices of a culture from the viewpoint of that culture itself.

Question 10

Define:

Culture

Answer 10

The sum of attitudes, customs and beliefs that distinguishes one group from another.

Question 11

Define:

Customs

Answer 11

A habitual practice.

Question 12

Define:

Diversity

Answer 12

The inclusion of individuals representing more than one race, sex, religion, etc.

Question 13

Define:

Ethnic Minority

Answer 13

A group that has different national or cultural traditions from the main population.

Question 14

Define:

Adolescence

Answer 14

The period following the onset of puberty during which a child transitions into an adult.

Question 15

Define:

Ethnicity/race

Answer 15

The state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.

Question 16

Define:

Masculinity/Femninity

Answer 16

Sexual identity, especially in relation to society or culture.

Question 17

Define:

Feral Children

Answer 17

Human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, little or no experience of human behavior, care or language.

Question 18

Define:

Gender/Sex

Answer 18

Whether a person is considered make or female-biological differences between men and women in relation to their bodies.

Question 19

Define:

Globalization

Answer 19

The social, technological, political and economic interdependence and interaction between people, firms and entire economies around the world.

Question 20

Define:

Hidden Curriculum

Answer 20

The ways in which the organization of teaching, school regulations and routines shapes pupils attitude and behavior.

Question 21

Define:

Imitation

Answer 21

A thing intended to simulate or copy something else.

Question 22

Define:

Law

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

Define:

Lifestyle

Answer 23

They way in which someone or a group lives.

Question 24

Define:

Manipulation/Canalisation

Answer 24

Parental attempts to make sure children play with gender appropriate items.

Question 25

Define: | Multicultural Society

Answer 25

The different ideologies, values and morals ranging from each individual in a society.

Question 26

Define: | Nature vs Nuture

Answer 26

Age old debate that explains human behavior.

Question 27

Define: | Norms/Values

Answer 27

Something that is usual, typic or standard/A persons principles or standards of behavior.

Question 28

Define: | Ostracism

Answer 28

Exclusion, by general consent, from a society or group.

Question 29

Define: | Peer Group

Answer 29

A group of people of approximately the same age, status and interests.

Question 30

Define: | Peer Pressure

Answer 30

Influence from members of ones peer group.

Question 31

Define: | Primary Socialization

Answer 31

Is the process by which we learn who we are and what our role in society is from people who raise us.

Question 32

Define: | Rewards/Sanctions

Answer 32

Something given in recognition of ones service, effort or achievement/A threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule

Question 33

Define: | Role

Answer 33

The function assumed or part played by a person or thing in a particular situation.

Question 34

Define: | Role Conflict

Answer 34

A situation in which a person is expected to play two incompatible roles.

Question 35

Define: | Role Modelling

Answer 35

A person whose behavior, example, or success is or can be emulated by others, especially younger ones.

Question 36

Define: | Secondary Socialization

Answer 36

The process of learning what is appropriate behavior as a member of a smaller group within the larger society.

Question 37

Define: | Social Class

Answer 37

A division of a society based on social and economic status.

Question 38

Define: | Social Conformity

Answer 38

Agreement between an individual's behavior and a groups standards or expectations.

Question 39

Define: | Social Construction

Answer 39

How society groups people and how it privileges certain groups over others.

Question 40

Define: | Social Control/formal and informal

Answer 40

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.

Question 41

Define: | Social Identity

Answer 41

A persons sense of who they are based on their group memberships.

Question 42

Define: | Social Institutions

Answer 42

A complex, integrates set of social norms organized around the preservation of a basic societal value.

Question 43

Define: | Social Interaction

Answer 43

The way people talk and act with each other and various structures in society.

Question 44

Define: | Social Order

Answer 44

The totality kg stuttered human interrelationships in a society or a part of it.

Question 45

Define: | Status

Answer 45

The relative social, professional or other standing of someone or something.

Question 46

Define: | Stereotype

Answer 46

A commonly held view about a particular group of people i.e. Race, Colour, Religion, etc

Question 47

Define: | Sub-culture

Answer 47

Groups that have values and norms that are distinct from those held by the majority.

Question 48

Define: | Value Consensus

Answer 48

A key concept in Functionalist views, where most of the people in a society share the same core values.

Question 49

Define: | Youth Sub-culture

Answer 49

A minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of members.