week 5

Question 1

Define socialization

Answer 1

Learning/ lifelong process to become a member of the social world including learning the values and beliefs of our culture

Question 2

What is an example of socialization

Answer 2

Babies are supposed to like a certain color depending on what gender they are even though they were not born liking that color

Question 3

The exchange of verbal/ nonverbal messages that form the basic building block of

Answer 3

Socialization

Question 4

What is the importance of socialization

Answer 4

Children need human contact affection and interaction in order to fully develop

Question 5

Importance of socialization

Answer 5

Cases of isolated and abused children

Question 6

In socialization micro/meso/macro

Answer 6

Most activities are part of the socialization experience

Micro-level= parents,peer group
Meso= schools, religious group 
Macro= national advertisement

Question 7

What social importance of socialization=

Answer 7

organizations are dependent upon socialized people to help them survive

Lack on adequate socialization increases the likelihood of deviant behavior

Question 8

What is social self?

Answer 8

The perceptions we have of who we are

Question 9

The looking glass self

Answer 9

A reflective process that develops the self based on our interpretations and on our internationalization of the reactions of others

Question 10

The looking glass 1,2,3

Answer 10

1. We imagine how we want to appear to others
2. others make judgements and respond
3. We experience feelings and react based on our interpretations

Question 11

Role-taking symbolic

Answer 11

Symbolic interactions theory of the self
By? George Mead
View ourselves through interactions with others
Once we can symbolically recognize objects we can view the self as an object

Question 12

Parts of Self-Mead’s parts of the self

The I/M

Answer 12

The I spontaneous, unpredictable; impulsive, acts without considering social consequences
“Me” the reflexive part of the self that knows the rules of society and attempts to control and direct the I into socially acceptable behavior

Question 13

Mead’s Stages of development

Answer 13

Imitation
Play- children play at taking roles of profession/ play husband / wife but do not understand complex relationships
Game: children take the roles of multiple others can currently and the role of the generalized other

Question 14

Generalized other

Answer 14

A composite of social expectations

Question 15

Rites of passage

Answer 15

Public celebrations or recognition of passage from one status to another

Question 16

Why is it important to understand right of passage

Answer 16

Because they impact others perceptions,self-perceptions and expectation of the individual

Question 17

Agents of socialization

Answer 17

People, organizations and institutions that enable us to learn the beliefs values and behaviors of our cultures

Question 18

Formal socialization

Answer 18

Stated goal

Depends how family socializes with child

Question 19

Informal socialization

Answer 19

Media isn’t a stated gol but occurs anyway-reinforcing gener

Different agents messages may concur or conflict*

Question 20

Families

Micro level socialization

Answer 20

Families +/- sanctions to teach right,wrong
The # and this of sanctions shape the socialization process and the self
Culture
Sub-culture
# of children the household and birth order

Question 21

Meso level

Answer 21

The wealth power and prestige rankings individuals hold in society 
Social class and socialization 
-parents socialize children to meet expectation of the social class into which they are born 

• middle class autonomy, creativity, self-direction
• working class rule following rspect authority

Question 22

electronic media-meso

Answer 22

electronic media as socialization, television, computers

-78% of home share computer access

Question 23

media pertuating inequality

Answer 23

throughout our lives we are socialized through the symbolic world of our social world
-we learn gender, race, class, femininity/masculinity

Question 24

resocialization

Answer 24

process of abandoning one or more social positions in favor of others that are more suitable for a newly aquired status