Chapter 3 Flashcards
Socialization
Social environment
The entire human environment, including interaction with others
Feral children
Children assumed to have been raised by animals, in the wilderness, isolated from humans.
Socialization
The process by which people learn the characteristics of their group - the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, norms, and actions thought appropriate for them.
Self
The unique human capacity of being able to see ourselves “from the outside”; the views we internalize of how we think others see us.
Looking-glass self
A term coined by Charles Horton Cooley to refer to the process by which our self develops through internalizing others reactions to us.
Taking the role of the other
Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes; understanding how someone else feels and thinks, so you anticipate how that person will act
Significant other
An individual who significantly influences someone else.
Generalized other
The norms, attitudes, a of people “in general”; the child’s ability to take the role of the generalized other is a significant step in the development of a self.
Id
Freud’s term for our inborn basic drives
Ego
Freud’s term for a balancing force between the id and the demands of society
Superego
Freud’s term for the conscience; the internalized norms and values of our social groups
Gender
The behaviors and attitudes that a society considers proper for its male and females; masculinity or femininity
Gender socialization
Learning society’s “gender map”, the paths in life set out for us because we are male or female.
Peer group
A group of individuals, often of roughly the same age, who are linked by common interests and orientations
mass media
Forms of communication, such as radio, newspapers, and television that are directed to mass audiences
