Nature Vs Nurture
Inherited genetic characteristics versus environment and social learning is also called what?
Nature vs Nurture
An image of ourselves based on imagining how we appear to others is called what?
The Looking glass self
The most important agent of socialization in almost every society is what?
Family
The people raised without the influence of a cultural environment
feral children
Developed the concept of the looking-glass self.
Charles H. Cooley
Question: A break with past experiences and the learning of new values and norms is called what?
resocialization
According to Cooley, children develop a sense of self through interactions with their what?
Primary group
A parent saying one thing but doing another is an example of what?
Unintended socialization
Studied the effects of institutionalization on infants.
René Spitz
The sum total of a person's behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values
Personality
Once people reach adulthood, personality traits tend to do what?
Change more slowly
The concept of internalized attitudes, expectations, and viewpoints of society is what?
generalized other
In the United States, the primary agents of socialization are what?
Peer groups, the school, the family, and the mass media.
Part of self that is aware of the expectations and attitudes of society
me
An unchanging, biologically inherited behavior pattern.
Instinct
People who shape themselves to fit what they think a group wants them to be shows a need for what?
peer acceptance
What are the three steps involved in developing the looking-glass self?
1, Imagining how we appear to others
2. interpreting others' reactions
3.developing a self-concept.
Research shows that firstborn children are more likely to be what?
Achievement-oriented, responsible, and conservative.
Scientist who held that instinctual behavior could be taught.
John B Watson
The systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior.
Sociobiology
What determines the basic types of personalities that will be found in a society?
The cultural enviorment
What part of the self is aware of the expectations and attitudes of society?
generalized other
What is it that sociologists mean when they say, "Society makes us human"?
Society shapes individuals through socialization and interaction with others.
Philosopher who believed that people are born without personalities.
John Locke
Said that we first internalize the expectations of the people closest to us
George H. Mead