Slideshow #5 (Socialization)

Question 1

Socialization

Answer 1

Process of learning attitudes, values, and actions appropriate for members of a particular culture

Question 2

Epigenetics

Answer 2

Interelation of genes and environment

Question 3

Self

Answer 3

Your ideas and attitudes about who you are as an independent being

Question 4

Charles Horton Cooley - Looking-Glass Self

Answer 4

We learn who we are by interacting with others
1. We imagine how we appear to others
2. We imagine how others think about us
3. We develop feelings about ourselves (respect, shame) based on these imagined judgments

Question 5

George Herbert Mead - Stages of the Self

Answer 5

Children develop self through 3 stages
1. Preparatory (0-2): Imitate others
2. Play (2-6): Pretend, role-taking
3. Game (7+): Multiple roles, generalized other

Question 6

Erving Goffman - Presentation of Self

Answer 6

We actively manage how others see us
* Impression management
* Face-work
* Social interaction

Question 7

Primary Socialization

Answer 7

Childhood socialization within family

Question 8

Secondary Socialization

Answer 8

Learning after childhood through other agents (friends, teachers, media, workplace)

Question 9

Rites of Passage

Answer 9

Rituals marking symbolic transition from one social position to another

Question 10

Social devaluation

Answer 10

Certain groups considered to have less social value

Question 11

Status-based relativity

Answer 11

What’s normal at one age isn’t at another

Question 12

Anticipatory Socialization

Answer 12

Beginning to adopt norms/behaviors of role you aspire to

Question 13

Resocialization

Answer 13

Socializing agents cause changes in values, roles, and self-concept

Question 14

4 Characteristics: of Total Institutions

Answer 14

1. All life in one place under one authority
2. Activities with others in same situation
3. No input on rules - authorities decide everything
4. Cut off from society - institution provides all needs

Question 14

Total Institutions

Answer 14

Settings where people are isolated from society under strict control of staff

Question 15

Degradation ceremony

Answer 15

humiliating rituals to strip old identity and create new one

Question 16

Face-work

Answer 16

Maintaining proper image, avoiding public embarrassment

Question 17

Social interaction

Answer 17

Performance (front stage, backstage, roles, props)

Question 18

Impression management

Answer 18

Altering self-presentation to create specific appearances for different audiences