Chapter 3 Flashcards
The entire human environment, including interactions with others
social environment
Children who couldn’t speak, they bit, scratched, growled, walked on all fours, ate grass, tore at raw meat, and showed insensitivity to pain and cold
feral children
The longer the children lack stimulating __, though, the more __ they have intellectually. Experiment Name ?
Interaction and difficulty; The Skeels/Dye Experiment
The process by which people learn the characteristics of their group
socialization
The unique human capacity of being able to see ourselves “from the outside”; the views we internalize of how others see us
self
The process by which our self develops through internalizing others reactions of us
looking-glass self
Self-concept begins in __ , its development is on ongoing, __ process
Childhood; Lifelong
Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes; understanding how someone else feels and thinks, so you anticipate how that person will act
Taking the role of the other
An individual who significantly influences someone else
Significant Other
The norms, values, attitudes, and expectations of people “in general
Generalized other
2 Parts the self is made of
I and me
Who pointed out that children go through a natural process as they learn how to reason
Jean Piaget
The behaviors and attitudes that a society considers proper for its males and females
Gender
Learning society’s gender map, the paths in life set our for us because we are male and female
Gender Socialization
Who introduces us to the gender map
Parents
Parents who shows less gender sterotyping and their children don’t conform to traditional ideals
Gay & Lesbian Parents
A group of individuals often of roughly the same age and linked by common interest
Peer groups
A social condition in which privilege and obligations given to some but denied to others
Social Inequality
People or groups that affect our self concept, attitudes, behaviors, or other orientations toward life
Agents of Socialization
