Summative 2.0 Reviewer Flashcards
Lifelong Process of social interaction through which people acquire their identities and necessary survival skills in society
Socialization
Process of being socialized into a specific culture. Individual learn cultural symbols, norms, values and language by observing and interacting in the society
Enculturation
An Individual’s identity is formed through his interactions with other people
Identity Formation
Socially Approved behaviors that have no moral underpinning
Folkways
Includes behavior that are considered acceptable in relation to religious practices
Mores
Behaviors that are absolutely forbidden in a specific culture.
Taboos
Consists of the rules and regulation that are implemented by the state, making them the prime source of social control
Laws
Behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards
Conformity
behavior that violates expected rules and norms
Deviance
there are goals that people want to achieve and amidst these goals, people respond in four different ways
Strain Theory
The use of new or illicit techniques to achieved desired ends. ( Stealing to gain financial success)
Innovation
It is practiced when a person cannot achieve valued goals gives up trying but continues to confirm to prevailing rules and outward forms to allay the anxieties created by lowered levels of aspiration ( exam proctor refuses to allow students to go out)
Ritualism
Total escape from a situation where one cannot achieve desired goals and gives up sanctioned means to reach them ( dropping out of school, going into drugs and becoming alcoholics)
Retreatism
result from frustration generated by very limited opportunities to reach desired goals and leads to alienation from the norms standards and institutions by which goals are normally reached. ( people who join rebel groups to become suicide bombers)
Rebellion
the society that labels people and their actions as deviant. There are people who label others as deviants such as police, courts and medical experts.
Labeling Theory