Module 2.1

Question 1

• Centered on survival for people behaved according to social rules and traditions while the family and environment provided supervision.
• Choosing where to live, what line of work to do, and even who to marry was very limited.

Answer 1

Pre-modern Society

Question 2

• Individualism is dominant;
• Development of one’ self-identity is central;
• A person is free to choose where to live, what to do and whom to be with.

Answer 2

Modern Period

Question 3

Effects of Modernization

Answer 3

• Affects how an individual builds and develops his/her self-identity.
• Improved people’s living conditions.
• Decreased stability in tradition and traditional support systems.

Question 4

Key Characteristics of Modernity

Answer 4

• Industrialism
• Capitalism
• Institutions of surveillance
• Dynamism

Question 5

A social or economic system built on manufacturing industries.

Answer 5

Industrialism

Question 6

A production system in which a country’s trade and industry are
controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state

Answer 6

Capitalism

Question 7

Functions, in part, because of the extensive collection, recording, storage, analysis and application of information on individuals and groups in those societies as they go about their lives.

Answer 7

Institutions of surveillance

Question 8

The quality of being characterized by vigorous activity and progress

Answer 8

Dynamism

Question 9

• A sociologist, philosopher, and a critic.
• “People create social networks by
  joining social groups”

Answer 9

Georg Simmel

Question 10

Ties or connections that link you to your social groups

Answer 10

Social networks

Question 11

Having 2 or more people interacting with one another, sharing similar characteristics,
and whose members identify themselves as part of the group.

Answer 11

Social group

Question 12

Naturally occurring and highly influenced by the family.

Answer 12

Organic Social Group

Question 13

Joining groups because your family is also a part of it

Answer 13

Organic motivation

Question 14

A positive effect of organic group.

Answer 14

Rootedness

Question 15

Occurs in modern societies formed as a matter of shared interest

Answer 15

Rational Social Group

Question 16

Joining rational social groups out of their free will

Answer 16

Rational Motivation

Question 17

A philosopher, sociologist and
psychologist.
* Well-known for his “Theory of
Social Self”

Answer 17

George Herbert Mead

Question 18

A product of social interactions
and internalizing the external
views along with one’s personal
view about oneself.
* Not present from birth rather it
is developed over time

Answer 18

Self

Question 19

3 stages in self development

Answer 19

• Language
• Play
• Game

Question 20

Gives the individual the capacity to express himself/herself

Answer 20

Language

Question 21

Enables the individual to internalize others’ perspectives

Answer 21

Play

Question 22

Enables them to take into account societal rules and adheres to it.

Answer 22

Game

Question 23

2 sides of the self

Answer 23

• Me
• I

Question 24

The product of what the person has learned while interacting with others and with the environment

Answer 24

Me

Question 25

* The part of the self that is unsocialized and spontaneous. * The individual’s response to the community’s attitude toward the person * Represents impulses and drives, does not follow rules * Constructs a response based on what has been learned by the “me.

Answer 25

I

Question 26

A sociologist best known for his concept of the looking-glass self

Answer 26

Charles Horton Cooley

Question 27

Grows out of society’s interpersonal interactions and the perceptions of others

Answer 27

Self