FINAL EXAM (socialization)

Question 1

what are the 7 stages of life?

Answer 1

1. the good life (the good life)
2. the fast life (the fast life)
3. the wandering life (the wandering life)
4. the truth life (the truth life)
5. the planning life (the planning life)
6. the doing life (the doing life)
7. the elder life (the teaching life)

Question 2

what is the good life (stage 1)?

Answer 2

• shortly after conception

- mother cares for future child’s spirit

Question 3

what is the fast life (stage 2)?

Answer 3

• adolescence growth and change

- elders stress, peers may have a strong influence

Question 4

what is the truth life (stage 3)?

Answer 4

• meaning/purpose of life is considered
• parents have strong roles
• sharing is emphasized

Question 5

what is the truth life (stage 4)?

Answer 5

• women/men take up teachings as mothers and husbands

- strength is key

Question 6

what is the planning life? (stage 5)?

Answer 6

• couples prepare for parenthood

- parents take their kids through the past 4 stages

Question 7

what is the doing life (stage 6)?

Answer 7

-entire family plays role with new child, role modelling

Question 8

what is the elder life (stage 7)?

Answer 8

-elders are celebrated

Question 9

when does socialization begin?

Answer 9

begins before birth.

Question 10

what are agents? what do they do?

Answer 10

parents, peers, teachers. they socialize kids into culture, identity, ways of being, etc.

Question 11

what is primary socialization?

Answer 11

family, language, skills, traditions.

Question 12

what is secondary socialization?

Answer 12

outside family, school, peers, ceremonies.

Question 13

what are social institutions?

Answer 13

family, school, church, mosques.

Question 14

how does social self develop?

Answer 14

1) learn symbols and their meaning
2) pretend to be other in play
3) complex games = multiple roles
4) integrate and general social expectations

Question 15

how is one socialized into gender?

Answer 15

• socialization teaches expected, natural, patterns of acting.
• teaches gendered actions.
• parents, teachers, peers teach, enforce, gender.
• by 5-7 develop rigid sense of gender.
• gender is learnt

Question 16

socialized into roles

Answer 16

• expectations and roles which socially position us (mother, son, manager, student, etc.)
• tied to positions NOT individual
• script for role, ‘norms’ of position
• we learn script for role, becomes second nature
• may fill them in a unique way, but we still have to fill them

Question 17

ascribed status is _______?

Answer 17

involuntary. born into sex, gender, race, religion.

Question 18

achieved status is _______?

Answer 18

voluntary. work towards becoming athlete, nurse, chief.

Question 19

socialized children ____ of anishinaabe culture and ____ canadian.

Answer 19

OUT OF, INTO.

Question 20

what did they do to residential school children? (take them away from primary agents, etc.)

Answer 20

• civilize and christianize children, removing parents, community, and cultural influence.
• break ties
• children taken, isolated from primary agents (parents)
• non-anishinaabe secondary agents (teachers, nuns) socialize children into a foreign alien culture.
• prevents generation-to-generation cultural reproduction