SOC 001 Flashcards
Stage One: Basic Trust/ Basic Mistrust
(Achievement is Hope) - Infant is almost completely dependent on others for his needs.
If needs are not satisfied regularly, mistrust in self and others results.
(Child has no clear sense of difference between self and others)
Severe mistrust leads the child to be timid and withdrawn.
Parents build order, security, safety, trust into the world of the child through:
–nurturance
–responsiveness
–attentiveness
–order
–predictability
Stage Two: Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt
(Achievement is Will) - In this stage the child begins to see himself as an autonomous and separate being capable of doing things for himself.
Stage Three: Initiative vs Guilt
(Lesson is Purpose) - Preschool Years (Ages 4-6) Curiosity is especially important in this stage.
Child is especially curious about:
his body
bodies of others (especially mother’s)
differences between males and females
Children Do Not yet, at this stage, understand the permanence of gender roles:
I am going to grew up to be a daddy (a girl’s statement)
Child Now Has the Ability to Imagine:
- -experimentation with social and sexual roles
- -ex: play house, play nurse, dress up in mother’s clothes/high heels
Stage Four: Industry versus Inferiority
(Lesson is Competence) - Ages 6-11
Child needs attention and praise for accomplishments.
He will continue to pursue different activities if child is assured that he can successfully execute them.
Parents should provide:
—attention
—praise
—encouragement
If not, child will avoid new projects because he believes he will not success.
(Child will have long-lasting sense of inferiority, I am not good enough, I cannot do that).
During this stage child begins to identify people in terms of their occupations
and defines self in terms of a future occupation.
Values
The general and abstract standards defining what a group or society as a while considers good or important.
Folkways
Norms that are generally unimportant.
Material Culture
All of the material objects that are reflections or manifest ions of a culture.
Symbolic Culture
Aspects of culture that exist in non material forms.
Assimilation
Inter grating the minority group into the mainstream.
Cultural Relativism
Idea that aspects if culture such as norms and values need to b understood w/in context of a persons own culture and there are no universally accepted norms.
Ethnocentrism
The belief that norms, values, traditions, and material and symbolic aspects of ones own culture are better than those of other cultures.
Cultural Imperialism
The imposition of one dominant culture on other cultures.
Cultural Hybrids
A cultural phenomenon combing inputs and impositions from other cultures w/ local realities
I
- part of you that is just living
- spontaneous
Me
- spectator
- judge
- observor
