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Test 2 Flashcards

1
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define socialization

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the process in which you acquire skills and knowledge to participate in society

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the forbidden experiment was

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if you could take a newborn infant and completely isolate it from society, how would it develop?

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Jean-Marc Itard

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focused on the care, treatment, and training of “Victor”, wanted to “socialize” him to become famous

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Genie

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A girl who was locked up for 14 Years and when she was found, she had missed the critical period where she could have learned language so she could not speak and was extremely disabled

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Sigmund Freud

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Austrian physician who worked for Dr Joseph Breuer. Developed a famous thesis

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Freuds Thesis

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That the human mind has 3 major components

1) ID - part of personality governed by instincts, does not care about society/culture
2) Ego - Logical part of mind, looks at world in rational way
3) Super-ego - conscience, sense of right and wrong

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7
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How do you test Freuds thesis?

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You can’t, its unstable

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Jean Piaget

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Interested in human cognitive developement

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Piget’s question

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How do human beings acquire the ability to think logically

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Piget’s theory

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1) sensory motor - (birth-2 years.) Too young to think logically, kids learn through senses and motor skill
2) Pre-occupational (2-6 years) kids learn for first time to use basic symbols, reading, writing, basic math, etc.
3) Concrete operational (6-11 yrs) kids can do more advanced math, types of thinking
4) Formal operational (11+) involves hypothetical thinking. people at stage 4 can think at a high level of abstract reasoning

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self concept

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how you think of yourself as an individual; socially constructed

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looking-glass self

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how you think of your self is strongly influenced by how you think other people think of you

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13
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who developed the self-concept and looking glass self theories?

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Charles Cooley

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14
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generalized other

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you become sensitive to the norms and values of your culture

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15
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agents of socialization

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family (most important), school, mass media, workplace

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16
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socialization and the life course

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Stage 1) Childhood (birth-12)
Stage 2) Adolescences (12-17)
Stage 3) Young adult (17-29)
Stage 4) Middle adulthood (29-65)
Stage 5) Senior citizen (65+)
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17
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what is the fastest growing age group

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seniors. specifically 80+

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what is the age group 14 and under doing?

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decreasing

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praying of the population

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evidenced by a population pyramid showing the population age median getting older

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Population pyramid

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what is the share of the Canadian population distribution in 2016?

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Why is the population graying?

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Birth rate: it is below the placement level (RL)

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What is the meaning of “replacement” level?

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population staying the same (not growing or shrinking)

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23
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What is the magic RL? for population to stay stable

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2.1 births / family

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24
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what was the Canadian birth rate in 2016?

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1.6 births / family

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25
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Why is the birth rate lower in developed countries?

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Post-industrial societies are not as dependant on their parents
Growing children have financial independence
social relationship between parents and children changed drastically in last few decades

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26
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define social structure

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stable patterns of relationships that you find in society

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27
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rule of the fathers

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a lot of economic and political power in society held by men

28
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what is the stats-can GSS survey?

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general social survey on housework participation

29
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what are the results of the GSS between 1986-2015

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men had a modest increase in core housework participation, whereas women had a small decrease

30
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what s the difference between social structure and culture?

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social structure is how society is organized

culture is why society is organized as it is

31
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what is status

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social position one occupies (parent, student, occupant)

32
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what is the status set?

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a collection of social statuses that an individual holds

33
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what is an ascribed status?

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statuses born with or acquired by default later (teen, senior)

34
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what is an achieved status?

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statuses which are achieved through effort such as your profession, a college graduate

35
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what is a master status

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1 status which overrides all the other statuses one has

36
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what us the effect of society on master status?

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society imposes status, not the individual

37
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what s a stigmatized master status

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master status which is negative, such as homelessness

38
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what is a role?

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behaviour expected of a given status

39
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what is a role set?

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roles taken collectively

40
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What is role conflict

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different roles lead to different conflicts

41
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what is role strain?

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strain between roles linked with a single status; always linked with a single status (med intern; student and physician role)

42
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what is role exit

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where you leave/exit a role important to self-identity. Shifting of master status

43
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what is the basic pattern for role exit?

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1) doubt
2) search for alternatives
3) reach a turning point
4) take on a new role

44
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who created the Thomas theorem?

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W.I. Thomas

45
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what is the basis of the Thomas theorem?

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stations defined as real are real in their consequences. Belief produces behaviour which makes original belief come true

46
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What is another term for the Thomas Theorem?

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the self-fulfilling prophecy

47
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what is ethnomethodology?

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the study of how people make sense of others

48
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who is related to ethnomethodology?

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Harold Garfinkel

49
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What is the flexibility range of norms in society?

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Inflexible to very flexible

50
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What is dramaturgical analysis?

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People’s behaviour is like actors on stage.People ‘perform’ in a way society expects

51
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who studied dramaturgical analysis?

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Erving Goffman

52
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what is impression management?

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you try to project the best image of yourself to the people around you

53
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what is idealization?

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people try to convince others that their behaviour is noble, rather then selfish

54
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what is emotional labour?

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the work people do to suppress or enhance the intensity and duration of their emotions

55
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what is role distancing

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when you deemphasize the importance of your role

56
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who studied gender and social interaction?

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Deborah Tannen

57
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what did she say about men and women’s assumption of words?

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they differ between men and women

58
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describe the academic conference results

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women asked a quarter of the questions and their questions were half as long as mens

59
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how are the above results interpreted

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men are more comfortable with public speaking, “report talk”

women are more comfortable with private speaking “rapport talk”

60
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who was Genie’s psychologist?

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James Kent

61
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who later took charge of the Genie investigation and became her foster parent?

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David Wriggler

62
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What caused some researchers to theorize Genie had brain damage?

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she had high sleep spindles which were abnormal

63
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what is the critical period hypothesis?

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the first few years life is the crucial time in which an individual can acquire a first language if presented with adequate stimuli

64
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who popularized the critical period hypothesis?

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Eric Lenneberg

65
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How was Genie’s vocab and grammar?

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decent vocab, poor grasp of grammatical concepts

66
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what was the main question derived from the Genie experiment/rehab?

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Did the team go as far they could to treat Genie, or did research get in the way?

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