Chapter 3 Flashcards
The entire human environment including interaction with others.
Social environment
Childrens assumed to have been raised by animals in the wilderness, isolated from humans.
Feral Children
The process by which people learn the characteristics of their group;. The knowledge skills, attitudes, values, norms, and actions thought appropriate for them.
Socialization
The unique human capacity of being able to see ourselves from the outside. The views we internalize of how we think others see us.
Self
Term coined by Charles Horton Cooley to refer to the process by which our self develops through internalizing others reactions to us.
Looking glass self
Taking the role of the other means what?
Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes. Understanding how someone else feels and thinks, so you anticipate how that person will act.
What is a significant other?
Someone who significantly influences someone else.
The norms values, attitudes and expectations of people in general. The Childs’ ability to take the role of the generalized other is a significant step in the development of a self.
Generalized other or perception of how people think of us.
What are the 3 stages of taking the role of the other? Who was the interactionist that taught this perspective?
George Herbert Mead
- Imitation-under age 3. Mimicking parents, family
- Play- ages 3-6. Pretending to be other people. Superhero, animal, etc.
- Team games- School age. Learning others roles and anticipate the their next move. Baseball
Who studied the Development of reasoning?
Jean Piaget
Freuds term for our inborn basic drives.
I’d
Freud’s term for a balancing force between the I’d and the demands of society.
Ego
Freuds term for the conscience, the internalized norms and values of our social groups.
Superego
The behaviors and attitudes that a society considers proper for its males an females; masculinity or feminity.
Gender
Learning society’s gender map. The paths in life set out for us because we are male or female.
Gender socialization
A group of individuals, often of roughly the same age, who are linked by common interests and orientations.
Peer group
Forms of communication such as radio newspapers and television that are directed to mass audiences.
Mass media
A social condition in which privileges and obligations are given to some but denied to others.
Social inequality
Agents of socialization are
Family, neighborhood, religion, day care, school, peer groups and the workplace.
The intended beneficial consequences of people’s actions.
Manifest functions.
Unintended beneficial consequences of people’s actions.
Latent functions.
The process of learning in advance an anticipated future role or status.
Anticipatory socialization
The process of learning new norms, values, attitudes and behaviors.
Resocialization
Place that is almost totally controlled by those who run it, in which people are cut off from the rest of society and the society is mostly cut off from them.
Total institution
A term coined by Harold Garfinkel to refer to a ritual whose goal is to remake someone’s self by stripping away that individual’s self identity and stamping a new identity in its place.
Degradation ceremony
The stages of our life as we go from birth to death.
Life course
A term that refers to a period following high school when young adults have not yet taken on the responsibilities ordinarily associated with adulthood; adultolescence
Transitional adulthood
An emerging stage of the life course between retirement and when people are considered old; age 65-74
Transitional older years.
