Chapter 4

Question 1

What is socialization?

Answer 1

process by which human beings lean the social expectations of society.

Question 2

Why is socialization significant to society?

Answer 2

creates an expectations that are basis for people’s attitudes and behaviors

Question 3

What are the agents of socialization

Answer 3

those who pass on social expectations. family is usually the first source of socialization

Question 4

Peers

Answer 4

• important source of individual identity

- w/out it people don’t feel accepted

Question 5

psychoanalytic theory

Answer 5

self driven by unconscious drives and forces that interact with the expectations of society

Question 6

social learning theory

Answer 6

identity is a learned response to social stimuli like reward punishment and role models

Question 7

Functionalism

Answer 7

socialization is key to social stability bc socialization establishes shared roles and values

Question 8

conflict theory

Answer 8

socialization is context of inequality and power

Question 9

Symbolic interaction theory

Answer 9

people are “constructing” the self as they interact with the environment and give meaning to their experiences

Question 10

How did Charles Horton Cooley describe the process of symbolic interaction.

Answer 10

looking glass self

Question 11

What are the stages George Herbert Mead described for child socialization

Answer 11

imitation
play
game

Question 12

Is socialization a uniform process?

Answer 12

No

families, social class, ect. are all factors

Question 13

Does socialization end during childhood?

Answer 13

No, but it is a significant time to form an identity

Question 14

What are the results of devaluing old people?

Answer 14

age prejudice & age discrimination & age stratification

Question 15

Resocialization

Answer 15

existing social roles are radically altered or replaced

Question 16

adult socialization

Answer 16

process of learning new roles and expectations in adult life

Question 17

age cohort

Answer 17

aggregate group of people born during the same time period

Question 18

age stratification

Answer 18

hierarchy rank of age groups

Question 19

anticipatory socialization

Answer 19

process of learning the expectations associated with a role one expects to enter in the future

Question 20

game stage

Answer 20

when children become capable of taking a multitude of roles at the same time

Question 21

Generalized other

Answer 21

abstract composite of social roles and expectation

Question 22

identity

Answer 22

how one defines themselves

Question 23

imitation stage

Answer 23

children copying behavior

Question 24

Life course

Answer 24

connection between people’s personal attributes, roles accepted, life events and historical context of those events

Question 25

Looking glass self

Answer 25

idea that people’s conception of self arises through reflection about their relationship to others

Question 26

Peers

Answer 26

those of similar status

Question 27

personality

Answer 27

cluster of needs drives, attitudes, predispositions, feelings, and beliefs that characterize a given person

Question 28

play stage

Answer 28

children begin to take on the roles of people in their environment

Question 29

self

Answer 29

concept of who we are formed in relationship to others

Question 30

self concept

Answer 30

an individual’s image and evaluations of themselves

Question 31

social control

Answer 31

individuals are brought into conformity with social expectations of a given group