culture and socialization

Question 1

What is culture?

Answer 1

The Knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in a human group or society

Question 2

What is Beliefs

Answer 2

The mental acceptance or conviction that certain things are true or real.

Question 3

What is a Symbol?

Answer 3

Anything that meaningfully represents something else

Question 4

What is language?

Answer 4

A set of symbols that are expressed ideas and enables people to think and communicate with one another.

Question 5

What is values?

Answer 5

Collective ideas about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable or undesirable in particular culture.

Question 6

what is norms

Answer 6

Established rules of behavior or standards of conduct

Question 7

What is mores?

Answer 7

Strongly held norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture.

Question 8

What is Taboos?

Answer 8

More so Strong that their violation is considered to be extremely offensive and even unmentionable

Question 9

What are laws?

Answer 9

Formal, standardized norms that have been enacted by legislature and are enforced by formal sanctions

Question 10

What is Subculture

Answer 10

A group of people who share a distinctive set of cultural beliefs and behaviors that differs in some significant of the larger society.

Question 11

What is Counterculture?

Answer 11

A group that strongly rejects dominant societal values and norms and seeks alternative lifestyles.

Question 12

What is Ethnocentrism?

Answer 12

The practice of judging all other cultures by one’s own culture

Question 13

What is Socialization?

Answer 13

The lifelong practice of social interaction through which individuals acquire a self-identity and the physical, mental, and social skills needed for survival in society.

Question 14

what is self-concept

Answer 14

The totality of our beliefs and feelings about ourselves.

Question 15

What is Agent of socialization

Answer 15

The persons, group, or institutions that teach us what we need to know in order to participate in society.

Question 16

What is peer-group

Answer 16

A group of people when are linked by common interests, equal social position, and (usually) similar age

Question 17

What is mass media?

Answer 17

Large scale organizations that use print or electronic means (such as radio, tv, fil, and the internet) to communicate with large numbers of people.

Question 18

What is Gender socialization?

Answer 18

The aspect of socialization that contains specific messages and practices concerning the nature of being female or male in a specific group or society.

Question 19

What is Racial Socialization?

Answer 19

The aspect of socialization that contains specific messages and practices concerning the nature of one’s racial or ethnic status.

Question 20

What is social devalution?

Answer 20

A situation in which a person or group is considered to have less social value that other individuals or groups.

Question 21

What is Ageism?

Answer 21

prejudice and discrimination against people on the basis of age, particularly against older people.

Question 22

What is Resocialization?

Answer 22

Learning new and different set of attitudes, values and behaviors from those in one’s background and experience.