A child watches her mother cooking in the kitchen and she begins to act like she is cooking with her toys.
What is role-taking?
100
Joey learns specific values, beliefs, and behaviors as he is growing up.
What is Family?
100
Some sociologists believe that people have genetically inherited their personality traits.
What is Nature?
100
The unsocialized, spontaneous, self-interested component of the personality and self identity.
What is I?
100
Specific individuals, groups, and institutions that enable socialization to take place.
What is agents of socialization?
200
Everyday Bob is told that he is a loser. Over a period of time, Bob accepts this and believes that he is, in fact, a loser and his school work suffers as a result.
What is Looking-glass Self?
200
The people that Harry spends time with influence the way he acts and dresses.
What is Peer Group?
200
Some sociologists believe that people develop their personality traits through the environment they are raised in.
What is Nurture?
200
The internalized attitudes, expectations, and viewpoints of society that guide our behavior and reinforce our sense of self.
What is generalized other?
200
A group of people who are related by marriage, blood, or adoption and who live together and share economic resources.
What is Family?
300
Rose always tried to judge whether the people around her were acting or if it was their true character. She believed that everyone gives a performance and attempts to manage a specific impression.
What is dramaturgy?
300
Often times, teachers influence the way students think.
What is School?
300
Genie and Victor gave scientists insight about the impact of isolation on young children.
Why were scientists interested in cases like Genie and Victor?
300
The conscious awareness of possessing a distinct identity that separates one from other members of society.
What is self?
300
The instruments of communication that reach large audiences with no personal contact between the individuals sending the information and those receiving it, such as newspapers, magazines, books, television, etc.
What is Mass Media?
400
These four men explored different theories of socialization.
Who is Locke, Cooley, Mead, and Goffman?
400
Facebook often shows the latest trends in which young teens often follow. Music also does the same.
What is Mass Media?
400
Purposely isolating children in order to observe the effects is considered this
What is Forbidden Experiment?
400
The interactive process through which people learn the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of a society.
What is socialization?
400
A primary group composed of individuals of roughly equal age and similar social characteristics.
What is Peer Group?
500
Each person is born without a personality. As people get older, they are molded and shaped into a character, any character.
What is Tabula Rasa (blank slate)?
500
Bill goes to college and is introduced to a new way of thinking and living. He decides to let go of his previous way of living and accept what he learned at college.
What is Resocialization?
500
Case studies and evidence never clearly support one side over the other is the ongoing argument:
What is the nature vs. nurture debate?
500
An effort to present the self well and manage the impressions that the audience receives.
What is impression management?
500
A setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society for a specific period of time and subjected to tight control.