Definitions
a status into which one is born; involuntary status.
What is ascribed status?
For babies, the primary unit of socialization is generally _____. Then as children grow older _____ becomes a key location in their socialization.
What is family, and school?
The process by which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a given society and learn to function as members of that society
What is socialization?
Three agents of socialization in youth
What is family, school, peers?
an institution in which one is totally immersed and that controls all the basics of day-to-day life; no barriers exist between the usual spheres of daily life, and all activity occurs in the same place and under the same single authority.
What is total institution?
We might call the process by which things—ideas, concepts, values—are socially constructed
What is social interactionalism?
the process by which one’s sense of social values, beliefs, and norms are reengineered, often deliberately, through an intense social process.
What is resocialization?
Mead's Stages of Social Development
What is I/me, significant other, reference group, and generalized other?
an internalized sense of the total expectations of others in a variety of settings—regardless of whether we’ve encountered those people or places before.
What is Generalized Other?
A term that describes why some people go against their natural socialization. Ex "“I just don’t know what’s wrong with him. He comes from such a nice family. And his older brothers are such nice, respectful boys.”
What is agency?