Chapter 4 Flashcards
Significant others
Those with whine we have a close affiliation.
Life course
The connection between people’s personal attributes, the roles they occupy, the life events they experience, and the social and historical context of these events.
Identity
How one defines oneself.
Age discrimination
Different and unequal treatment of people based solely on their age.
Internalization
A process by which a part of culture becomes incorporated into the personality.
Looking glass self
The idea that people’s conception of self arises through reflection about their relationships to others.
Resocialization
The process by which existing social roles are radically altered or replaced.
Psychoanalytic theory
A theory of socialization positing that the unconscious mind shapes human behavior.
Self concept
A persons image and evaluation of important aspects of oneself.
Peers
Those of similar status
Generalized other
An abstract composite of social roles and social expectations.
Play stage
Th stage in childhood when children begin to take on the roles of significant people in their environment.
Rite of passage
Ceremony or ritual that symbolizes the passage of an individual from one role to another.
Disengagement theory
Theory predicting that as people age, they gradually withdraw from participation in society and are simultaneously relieved of responsibilities.
Socialization
The process through which people learn the expectations of society.
Ageism
The institutionalized practice of age prejudice and discrimination.
Game stage
The stage in childhood when children become capable of taking a multitude of roles at the same time.
Age cohort
An aggregate group of people born during the same time period.
Personality
The cluster of needs, drives, attitudes, predispositions, feelings, and beliefs that characterize a given person.
Roles
Behavior others expect from a person associated with a particular status.
Social learning theory
A theory of socialization positing that the formation of identity is a learned response to social stimuli.
Age stereotypes
Preconceived judgements about what different age groups are like.
Age stratification
The hierarchical ranking of age groups in society.
Age prejudice
A negative attitude about an age group that is generalized to all people in that group.
Self
Our concept of who we are, as formed in relationship to others.
Taking the role of other
Process of imagining oneself from the point of view of another.
Socialization agents
Those who pass on social expectations.
Imitation stage
The stage in childhood when children copy the behavior of those around them.
Stockholm syndrome
A process whereby a captured person identifies with the captor as a result of becoming inadvertently dependent upon the captor.
Social control
The process by which groups and individuals within those groups are. Brought into conformity with dominant social expectations.
Anticipatory socialization
The process of learning the expectations associated with a role one expects to enter in the future.
Age sterotype
Preconceived judgements about what different age groups are like.
