Chapter 2: Socialization, Agents of Socialization, and the Life Cycle Flashcards
What was Lareau’s general conclusion?
Social class creates different contexts for socialization in childhood within the family, different sets of “cultural and social capital”.
What is the functionalist perspective on schools?
That schools have an explicit mandate to socialize people into the norms and values of our culture. Foster competition and have important latent functions.
What is the conflict perspective on schools?
That schools reinforce socially created diversity aspects of identity or social class. Introduces children to being treated more impersonally and getting them use to institutional schedules.
How are mass media and social media unique agents of socialization?
They allow for self-socialization and observational learning.
What are seen as the most important socializing media agents?
TV and social media.
True and False: The role of media in socialization is easy to quantify.
False. It is difficult, but not impossible.
What are digital nomads?
Internet users born after 1980 that are native speakers of digital language, confident with technology, trust the internet, and have full integration of technology into their daily life.
What are digital immigrants?
People who tend to be 40+, regularly but more selectively use the internet, and are more skeptical about data privacy and cybersecurity.
What is comparison theory?
The universal processes in which individuals compare their beliefs, attitudes, and abilities to others as a way of getting to know themselves.
What do passive social media users do?
Browse, but not post. Tend to feel more depression and envy because users compare their lives to those of others.
What are active social media users?
Posting on social media and browsing. Feel more connected to friends and have fewer feelings of loneliness.
What is above average social media connectivity correlated to?
High impulsivity and a negative relationship with parents.
Is social media overtly social?
No, the majority of users are silent or do not visibly engage.
Is social media reflective of public sentiment or opinion?
No, most of the content is from a small and unrepresentative fraction of the population.
Is social media serious?
Yes, it has played an active role in legitimizing and establishing social movements. It also played an active role in managing and modeling public health events.
