The Social Self
The interactive process through which people learn the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of a society
What is socialization?
The sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are characteristic of an individual
What is personality?
This form of media has the greatest impact on the socialization of children.
What is TV?
Involves a break with past experiences and the learning of new values and norms
What is resocialization?
The argument over whether heredity or the social environment determines personality
What is nature versus nurture?
This describes your conscious awareness of possessing an identity that separates you from members of your environment?
What is the Self?
A capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge
What is an aptitude?
The term for instruments of communication that reach large audiences without face to face interaction.
What is mass media?
The specific individuals, groups, and institutions that enable socialization to take place
What are agents of socialization?
The 4 principle factors that influence personality and behavior
What are heredity, birth order, parental characteristics, and the cultural environment?
Specific people, such as parents, brothers, sisters, relatives, and friends, who have a direct influence on our socialization
What are significant others?
A common personality trait in American culture.
What is competitiveness, assertiveness, or individualism?
Siblings who are more likely to be achievement-oriented and responsible
What are firstborn children?
primary group composed of individuals of roughly equal age and similar social experiences
What is a peer group?
George Herbert Mead's term for the internalized attitudes, expectations, and viewpoints of society
What is the generalized other?
The interactive process by which we develop an image of ourselves abased on how we imagine we appear to others
What is the looking-glass self?
This is the idea that social interaction is like drama being performed on stage.
What is dramaturgy?
The systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior
What is sociobiology?
A setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society for a set period of time and are subject to tight control
What is a total institution?
Mead's 3-step process by which children learn role-taking
What is imitation, play, and games?
He believed that each newly born human being is a "tabula rasa".
Who is John Locke?
Anna, Isabelle, and Genie are referred to as
What are feral children? (untamed)
This experiment conditioning dogs supported John Watson's belief that he could train healthy infants to become whatever he wanted.
What is Pavlov's Dogs?
The four primary agents of socialization
What are the family, the peer group, the school, and the mass media?
This is an unchanging, biologically inherited behavior pattern
Instinct