Chapter 4 Flashcards
Process through which people learn expectation of society
Socialization
Expected behavior associated with a given status in society
Roles
How one defines oneself
Identity
Persons relatively consistent pattern of behavior, feelings, predispositions and beliefs
Personality
When behaviors and assumptions are learned so thoroughly that people no longer question them but except them as correct
Internalization
The organization of society and a life, outcomes of people with and are the result of social definitions and processes
Socially constructed
Process by which groups and individuals in those groups are brought into conformity with dominant social expectations
Social control
How we think of ourselves as a result of the socialization experiences we have over a lifetime
Self concept
What are the consequences of socialization?
- Establishes self-concept
- Creates the capacity for rotating and the ability to see one self through the perspective of another
- Creates the tendency for people to act and socially acceptable ways
People sources or structures that pass on social expectations
Socialization agents
What are the six socialization agents?
Family Media School Religion Sports Peers
A set of believes that largely reject the theory of human biological evolution instead agree that human beings as now exist were created by essential force or God
Creationism
Id, ego, superego
Psychoanalytic theory
Considers the formation of identity to be a learned response to external stimuli
Social learning theory
Explains how our conception of self arises through considering a relationship to others
- how we think we appear to others
- how we think other judge us
- how the first 2 make us feel
Looking glass self
process of putting oneself into another point of view
taking the role of the other
children copy behaviors around them
imitation stage
children begin taking on the roles of the significant people in their life
play stage
chosen affiliation
significant others
child becomes capable of taking on multiple roles at the same time
game stage
perspective to describe and analyze the connection between people’s personal attributes, the roles they occupy, life events they experience
life course
socialization establishes identity/values
childhood
too young for adulthood, too old for childhood
adolescence
involves learning behavior and attitudes appropriate to specific situations and roles
adulthood
