Quiz #2 Flashcards
Is the process of internalizing the norms and ideologies of society.
Socialization
Explain how child develops the ability to grasp the role and attitudes of other person and visualize himself or herself through the eyes of others, acquiring what he or she calls the “social self”
Looking-glass self
Initially an infant sees himself or herself as his or her own universe. He or she does not care what other people would think of him or her as he or she still lacks the ability to think of the perspective of the other person.
“I” and the “Me”
The child sees himself or herself in the image of his or her parents. Usually prekindergarten children think and act like the people they often see.
Preparatory Stage
Children ages five and eight assume the role of others. From simple imitation, they start to act out roles and interact with other children.
Play Stage
Children understand that they should not only act based on what they see from others but what the society expects from them.
Game Stage
Canadian sociologist Erwing Hoffman showed a dramaturgical approach as to how certain social process can create an impact on the self and the role expectations on an individual.
The Mask, the Performance and the front
Is the process whereby people learn the attitudes, values, and actions appropriate to individuals as members of a Particular culture.
Primary Socialization
Refers to the process of learning the appropriate behavior as a member of a smaller group within the larger society.
Secondary Socialization
Is the process of learning behavior in a social institution or developing one’s social skills. For example, a new employee is socialized in his or her new company through orientations, and training sessions as well as meeting the senior employees to get to know the culture in the company he or she is working for.
Developmental Socialization
Is deviation from the desired behavior or enculturation, especially of the younger generation.
Reverse Socialization
Refers to the processes 9f socialization in which a person “rehearses”for future positions, occupations, and social relationships.
Anticipatory Socialization
Refer to the process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one’s life.
Resocialization
It is the center of the child’s life, as infants are totally dependent on others.
Family
Agents of socialization differ in effects across religious traditions.
Religion
A peer group is a social group whose members have interest, social positions and age in common.
Peer Group
A child spends most of his or her waking hours at school than at home. This is where formal learning takes place. Schoolmates, teachers, and the environment itself can have lasting impacts on a child’s socialization.
The School
Means for delivering impersonal communications directed to a vast audience.
Mass Media
Is a venue where employees socialize/encultured according to their roles expectation.
The Workspace
According to Leon Festinger people conform for the sake of correctness. People want to evaluate their beliefs, periodically, against standards in order to judge themselves.
Social Comparison Theory
Refers to comformity of people based on what they see
Physical realities
Needs to find other people who can serve as standards against which we can judge ourselves.
Social realities
People are not so much influenced by a need to be correct as they are influenced by a need to be consistent.
Cognitive Dissonance Theory
He claimed that people need to feel as if they have freedom to control their behavior
Reactance Theory
