Socialization

Question 1

Social environment

Answer 1

Their society and all surroundings influences in some way by humans

Question 2

Nothing

Answer 2

Nothing

Question 3

Feral children

Answer 3

A young individual who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, with little or no experience of human care, social behavior, or language

Question 4

Socialization

Answer 4

The process of social influence through which a person acquires the culture or subculture of their group, and in the course of acquiring these cultural elements the individual’s self and personality are shaped

Question 5

Self

Answer 5

The individual person, from his or her own perspective

Question 6

Looking-glass self

Answer 6

The process wherein individuals base their sense of self on how they believe others view them

Question 7

Taking the role of the other

Answer 7

Putting yourself in another person’s place to think/reflect about yourself

Question 8

Significant other

Answer 8

Any person or persons with a strong influence on an individual’s self-concept

Question 9

Generalized other

Answer 9

The ability to understand and take into account the attitudes and viewpoints of those in our society, as well as our expected roles within society

Question 10

Id

Answer 10

the basic instinctual drives that are present at birth, inherent in the somatic organization, and governed only by the pleasure principle

Question 11

Ego

Answer 11

The part of a person’s personality that is controlled by the reality principle as it mediates between a person’s animalistic desires and conscience

Question 12

Superego

Answer 12

The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates

Question 13

Gender

Answer 13

The characteristics or women, men, girls and boys that are socially constructed

Question 14

Gender socialization

Answer 14

The process of teaching member of society how to behave according to gender expectations, or gender roles

Question 15

Peer group

Answer 15

A social group and a primary group of people who have similar interests, age, background, or social status

Question 16

Mass media

Answer 16

Large-scale organizations which use one or more of these technologies to communicate with large numbers of people

Question 17

Social inequality

Answer 17

the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within a group or society

Question 18

Agents of socialization

Answer 18

A combination of social groups and social institutions that provide the first experiences of socialization

Question 19

Manifest functions

Answer 19

The recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern

Question 20

Latent functions

Answer 20

An unintended consequence or outcome of an activity or social system

Question 21

Anticipatory socialization

Answer 21

The way in which a person begins to think and behave in anticipation or joining a new social group

Question 22

Resocialization

Answer 22

Undergoing this process again by drastically changing one’s values and beliefs

Question 23

Total institutions

Answer 23

A place of work and residence where a great number of similarly situated people, cut off from the wider community for a considerable time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round or life

Question 24

Degradation ceremony

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The process of transforming one’s total identify to an identity that is lower in status and ejecting the individual from the group

Question 25

Life course

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A sequence of socially defined events and roles that the individuals enact over time

Question 26

Transitional adulthood

Answer 26

A period following high school when young adults have not yet taken on the responsibilities ordinarily associated with adulthood

Question 27

Transitional older years

Answer 27

Age-related transition points that require socialization into a new role, such as becoming school age entering the workforce, or retiring