Socialization and the Construction of Reality

Question 1

Process by which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a given society and to learn to function as a member of that society

Answer 1

Socialization

Question 2

Theorized that the “self” emerges from our ability to assume the point of view of theories and imagine how those others see us

Answer 2

Charles Horton Cooley

Question 3

Developed a theory about how the social self develops over the course of childhood

Answer 3

George Herbert Mead

Question 4

Individual identity of a person as perceived by that same person

Answer 4

Self

Question 5

One sense of agency, action, or power

Answer 5

I

Question 6

Self perceived as an object by the “I”; the self as one imagines others perceive one

Answer 6

Me

Question 7

Someone or something outside of oneself

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Other

Question 8

Internalized sense of the total expectations of others in a variety of settings regardless of whether we’ve encountered those people or places before

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Generalized other

Question 9

Institution in which one is totally immersed that controls all the basics of day-to-day life

Answer 9

Total institution

Question 10

Change in values, beliefs, or norms though an intense social process

Answer 10

Resocialization

Question 11

Position in society that comes with a set of expectation

Answer 11

Status

Question 12

One we are born with that is unlikely to change

Answer 12

Ascribed status

Question 13

One we have earned through individual effort or that is imposed by others

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Achieved status

Question 14

Status that seems to override all others and affects all other statuses that one possesses

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Master status

Question 15

Behaviors expected from a particular status

Answer 15

Roles

Question 16

Occurs when roles associated with one status clash with the roles associated with a different status

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Role conflict

Question 17

Occurs when roles associated with a single status clash

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Role strain

Question 18

All the statuses one hold simultaneously

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Status set

Question 19

Set of behavioral norms associated primarily with males or females in a given social group

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Gender roles

Question 20

View of social life as essentially a theatrical performance, in which we are all actors on metaphorical stages, with roles, scripts, costumes, and sets

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Dramaturgical theory

Question 21

Esteem in which an individual is held by others

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Face

Question 22

Micro-level theory based on the idea that people act in accordance with shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions

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Symbolic interactionism

Question 23

Approach to studying human interaction that focuses on the ways in which we make sense of our world, convey this understanding to others, and produce a mutually shared social order

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Ethnomethodology

Question 24

Involved having collaborators exhibit “abnormal” or “atypical” behaviors in social interactions in order to see how people would interact

Answer 24

Breaching experiment