Exam Flashcards
(37 cards)
Resociallization
Learning new norms, values . Intensive process
Erving Goffman
Total institutions cut off from society , no longer in control of life
Degradation ceremony
Current identity is stripped away and a new identity is created, isolates people,no control over anything
Gender socialization
Society nudges boys and girls in separate directions based on behavior,parents begin the process but media reinforces all the way into adult hood
George H. Mead
Play is critical to develop self…we can’t think without symbols
Total institutions
You are told what you have and need to do
Social class
Income, education,occupational prestige
Status
Positions that an individual occupies much prestige or very little, provides guidelines
Macro sociology
Structure, relationships between people and how we direct and limit human behavior
Taboos
Strongly ingrained to be greeted with revulsion
Values
Standards
Moral holidays
Special times when people are allowed to break the rules
Moral holiday place
Location where norms can be broken
Folkways
Not strictly enforced
Mores
Essential to core values ..right and wrong
Sanctions
+ & - reactions to the way in which people follow norms
Positive sanction
Expression of approval
Negative sanctions
Expressions of disapproval
Norms
Expectations or behaviors that develop out of a groups values
Language
System put together to communicate abstract thought
Gestures
Using the body as a way to communicate
Robert Edgerton
Quality of life other cultural practices=exploitation should be judged as morally inferior
Nature
Heredity
Nurture
Human behavior
