socialization

Question 1

socialization

Answer 1

The lifelong social learning a person undergoes in order to become a capable member of society, through social interaction with others and in response to social pressures

Family is the most important agent of socialization

Question 2

acculturation

Answer 2

the teaching and learning of a society’s culture

Question 3

Nature argument

Answer 3

Behaviour is determined by biological forces

Question 4

Nuture argument

Answer 4

Behaviour is influenced by the environment

Question 5

Hybrid families

Answer 5

Children of immigrant parents often successfully socialize in two cultures

Question 6

Cooley’s looking glass self

Answer 6

individuals develop their concept of self by observing how they are perceived by other

Question 7

Kohlberg’s theory of moral development

Answer 7

focuses on the thinking process that occurs when one decides whether a behaviour is right or wrong

Question 8

ID

Answer 8

compulsive, unconscious, pleasure seeking

Question 9

Superego

Answer 9

Internalized societal restraints

Question 10

Ego

Answer 10

Balances the Id and superego in cognitive, conscious thought

Question 11

Piaget’s four stages of intellectual development

Answer 11

1. Sensorimotor period
2. Pre-operational period
3. Concrete operational period
4. Formal operational period

Question 12

Functionalist Theory

Answer 12

examines how socialization promotes conformity which helps to create and preserve social harmony

e.g., stable society needs solidarity and cooperation of individuals

Question 13

Conflict Theory

Answer 13

focuses on how socialization helps the powerful and wealthy pass on their advantages to the next generation

-we’re taught to accept the status quo

Question 14

False Consciousness

Answer 14

the acceptance of the status quo through the obscured realities of one’s disadvantaged, unjust and exploited position

Question 15

Feminist Theory

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emphasizes that social interaction, discourse and gender roles are socially constructed and subjugate women

Question 16

Gender Roles

Answer 16

behavioural expectations related to masculinity and femininity

studies how girls and boys are socialized differently
e.g., gender-specific toys, clothing, sexual objectification of girls in the media

Question 17

Statuses

Answer 17

positions that people hold (hockey player, restaurant server, human resource specialist, social worker, sex trade worker)

Question 18

Ascribed status

Answer 18

born into or imposed by nature
e.g., race; disability; biological sex

Question 19

Achieved status

Answer 19

earned or chosen during the life course
e.g., student; artist; engineer

Question 20

master status

Answer 20

a status characteristic that overrides other status characteristics in terms of how others see an individual (e.g., gender; convicted murderer)

Question 21

Reappropriation

Answer 21

the reclaiming of terms which are/were using disparagingly toward certain groups