Test 2: CH 4 Socialization Flashcards

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1
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what will happen to children if they are not exposed to other humans who care for them in their first few months of life?

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the neural structures responsible for emotional and intellectual development will wither

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people can only become fully human if they undergo…

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socialization

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socialization

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when people learn to function in social life and become aware of themselves as they interact with others

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2 things socialization “involves”

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  1. individuals taking on and disengaging from roles
  2. becoming aware of themselves as they interact with others
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what does our self consist of?

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our ideas and attitudes of who we are as an independent being

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Freud said infants begin to develop a self image when?

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when their demands are not immediately met

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Freud argued that the self emerges only as a result of what?

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social interaction

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Before Freud, scholars thought the self developed how?

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naturally, how a seed germinates

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idea of Cooley’s “looking glass self”

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just as we see our reflection in the mirror, we see our social selves reflected in people’s responses to us

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“I” and “me” according to Mead

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I: impulsive aspect of the self present from birth
Me: objective component of the self that emerges as people communicate symbolically

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Mead’s 4 stages of development: role-taking

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  1. children imitate the significant others in their lives
  2. children pretend to be others by role-playing games “school”, “doctor”, etc
  3. children learn to take the role of several people while playing complex games
  4. children take the role of the generalized other
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life course

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the distinct phases of life through which people pass

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what marks the different stages of life in one’s life course?

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rites of passage

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which stage of human development has only been recognized in the past few hundred years?

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adolescence

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age cohort

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category of people born in the same range of years

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age roles

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expectations about the behavior of people in different age cohorts

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generation

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an age cohort that shares unique experiences in their first few decades of life that shape their identity and values

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6 generations alive in Canada today and their most noticeable trait

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greatest generation: 1900-1928, survived the great depression and WW2
silent generation: 1929-1945, AKA traditionalist generation bc of their shared values of hard work and conformity
baby boomers: 1945-1965, lead the cultural revolution that embraced civil rights and opposed war
gen x: 1966-1981, latchkey kids, grew up in baby boomers shadow, conservative w money
milennials: 1982-1994, known as lazy and entitled but those labels are undeserved
gen z: 1995-2010, short attention spans and great multitaskers, heavy on social media

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steps of socialization

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  1. in any environment, a person acts on the basis of their existing characteristics/interests
  2. the environment responds to the person’s actions
  3. the environmental response shapes the person’s conduct by either reinforcing their patterns of encouraging change.
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examples of social institutions that socialization operates through

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families, schools, peer groups, mass media

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primary socialization

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acquiring the basic skills needed to function in society in childhood

22
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the main way a religious group grows

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recruiting children whose parents already belong to the group

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secondary socialization

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socialization outside the family after childhood

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hidden school curriculum

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teaching students how to be good citizens following graduation

25
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which theorists first proposed the hidden curriculum?

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conflict theorists

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Thomas theorem and who proposed it

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“situations we define as real become real in their consequences”; symbolic interactionists

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self-fulfilling prophecy and who developed it

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an expectation that helps to cause what it predicts; symbolic interactionists

28
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what is the leading socializing agent from middle childhood through adolescence?

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peer groups

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2 functions of peer groups

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  1. help adolescents form an identity independent from their families
  2. teach adolescents how to adapt to larger society
30
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continuous connectivity

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the idea that Canadians are so obsessed with the internet and our devices that we’re never really truly alone or unavailable

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resocialization

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when powerful socializing agents cause rapid change in people’s values, roles and self-conception (sometimes against their will)

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3 stages of initiation rites (ex: a fraternity)

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  1. separate form old identity
  2. experience degradation, disorientation and stress
  3. accept new group culture and status
    1 ritual rejection 2 ritual death 3 ritual rebirth
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where does resocialization commonly occur?

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total institutions: people are isolated from larger society and under strict control and supervision of specialized staff

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anticipatory socialization

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taking on norms and behaviors of the roles that we aspire

35
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factors contributing to the growing flexibility of the self

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globalization
ability to change our bodies

36
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what tool is beginning to have a huge effect on the way we portray ourselves?

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the internet