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Who socializes us?

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agents of socialization

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What are the types of agents of socialization?

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primary groups and institutions

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What is the major difference between how middle and lower/working class parents socialize their children according to Annette Lareau?

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  • Middle class parents see their children as a project and get them involved in lots of afterschool activities - this sometimes creates a sense of entitlement
  • Lower/working class parents gave children directions but ultimately depended on others to socialize their children
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How do families socialize their children differently based on gender?

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  • first 24 hours after birth
  • parents reactions by gender
  • parents style of paly
  • toys clothes
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Other than family what is another primary group of socialization?

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  • peer groups
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How can peer groups be divided?

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toddlers vs adolescence

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Describe peer groups as toddlers.

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  • learn to share and interact with equals

- often same-sec peer groups by age 3

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Describe peer groups in adolecense.

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  • mixed-sex peer groups emerge
  • practice social relationships, roles
  • discuss taboo topics
  • experience peer pressure
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How does school socialize us?

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  • provides cultural values that we dont learn at home
  • competitiveness
  • status hierarchies
  • gender appropriate behavipr
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How does media socialize us and what are some examples?

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  • creates value sin society
  • ideal body type
  • racial and ethnic stereotypes
  • acceptable behaviors
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What is resocialization?

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The process of discarding values and behaviors unsuited to a new circumstance and replacing them with new, more appropriate values and norms

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What are some examples of situations where resocialization must occur?

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  • prison
  • moving to a new country
  • getting a new job
  • entering or returning from military
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What is social interactions

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how we mutually and

reciprocally shape each other’s behavior

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What is a status set?

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  • all statuses held at a given time

- woman, boss, asian, dancer, athelete, daughter

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What are the two types of statuses?

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ascribed and achieves

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What are examples of ascribed statuses?

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  • a result of birth, can change easily, if at all

- race, age, sex, class, nationality

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What are examples of achieved stauses?

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  • statuses that you have some control over

- felon, lawyer, married person, boy scout

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How are ascribed and achieve statuses confusing?

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  • Some statuses are hard to categorize (religion)

- Links between ascribed and achieved status: Ascribed status can help people achieve other statuses

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What is a master status?

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  • status which has exceptional importance in defining a person
  • our behavior is often judged by others based on our master status
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What is a study that illuminated master status?

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  • white vs black felons

- white felons more likely to get a call back than black non- felons

21
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Describe higher status interactants (socially)

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  • Talk more; interrupt more
  • Influence outcome of interaction
  • Are assumed to be correct
  • Mistakes are viewed as atypical
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Describe lower status interactants (socially)

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  • Add modifiers to statements
  • Are more likely to defer
  • Statements are challenged more
  • Mistakes are viewed as typical
23
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What are roles?

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  • socially defined expectations that accompany statuses

- we occupy statuses, while we play roles

24
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What is role strain?

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  • Incompatibility among roles corresponding to a single status
  • manager who balances (1) concern for workers
    with (2) task requirements
  • both functions associated with the same status but hard to do at the same time
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What is role conflict?

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  • Incompatibility among roles corresponding to different statuses
  • mother police officer
26
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What is role exit?

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when people disengage social roles that have been central to their self-identity in order
to establish a new role and identity

27
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What is the goal of ethnomethodology/ what is it?

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  • Developed by Harold Garfinkel
  • Uncover hidden, taken-for-granted rules in every
    interaction
  • Method to illuminate what is taken for granted
28
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What is dramaturgy?

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  • The study of social interaction as theater
  • Developed by Erving Goffman
  • Life is a stage
  • Each event has its own scenery, costumes, props, roles, and scripts
  • Each “scene” is separated by symbolic curtain
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What is impression management?

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  • Acting a certain way to create an image (accurate
    or not): presentation of self
  • Give vs. give off
  • Might not even do that in a calculated way or be
    conscious of it
30
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What is give vs give off?

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give- verbal, intentional

give off- gestures, facial expressions

31
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What are social groups?

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Social groups: building blocks for society and for most social interaction

32
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What did George Simmel decide determines a group?

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  • the size

- “Quntitative aspects of the group”

33
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What is a dyad?

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  • Group of 2
  • no majority
  • never confronted by a collectivity
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What is a triad?

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  • group of 3
  • The simplest structure in which the group as a whole
    can achieve domination over its component
    members
  • A third member may mediate, rejoice, divide and conquer
35
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What happens as group size increases?

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  • the number of possible relationships increases
  • in a group of three, three possible relationships exist,
    but in a group of four, six possible relationships
    exist
36
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What are small groups, parties, and large groups?

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  • Small groups: face to face interactions, unifocal, lack of formal arrangements/roles
  • parties: multifocal
  • large groups: formal structure that mediates interaction, status differentiation
37
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What are the kinds of groups?

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  • primary vs secondary
  • in groups vs out groups
  • reference groups
38
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What is group think?

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  • The tendency of group members to conform, resulting in a narrow view of some issue
  • Illusion of unanimity; discouragement of dissenting
    opinion
39
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What are the two components of social network data?

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actors and relations

40
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How can relations be presented?

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  • directed or undirected

- binary or valued

41
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What is social cohesion determined by?

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  • networks are structurally cohesive if they remain connected even when nodes are removed
42
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What is embeddedness?

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  • the degree to which ties are reinforced through indirect paths
43
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What does Granovetter aregue about the strength of ties?

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  • Granovetter argues that, under many circumstances, strong ties are less useful than weak ties
  • The mechanism is diffusion of
    information/opportunity through non-redundant ties
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What is a structural hole?

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  • a grap between network clusters that would benefit from having the gap closed
  • your ties matter because of who your contacts are connected to (mother to friend)

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