Socialization
Socialization is the process of ___________ culture.
learning/developing
The first stage of the human life course, ___________, can be understood as a social invention.
childhood
The study of ___________ communication has determined that some things—like facial expressions— are inborn, while other things—like norms surrounding eye contact and body language—are culturally determined
nonverbal
Internet users who are deliberately provocative and disruptive, subverting the norms of polite communication, are often referred to as ___________.
trolls
The simplest social grouping, a ___________ is also characterized by intensity and instability.
dyad
___________ is the process by which parents of color consciously transmit ideas about cultural pride, bias and discrimination, and egalitarianism.
Racial socialization
The age category of ___________ didn't exist until the early 20th century when children's work became restricted and the federal government mandated states to provide public education.
teenager
Social ___________ are the expectations regarding the behavior, attitudes, and activities associated with persons of a given status.
roles
Social media accounts can allow a person significant ability to engage in impression ___________, meaning we can carefully craft and curate the "self" that we want to present.
management
Unlike tight-knit primary groups that people find inherently fulfilling in some way, ___________ groups are those we engage with primarily to accomplish some sort of task.
secondary
Parents, peers, and mass media are important ___________ of socialization.
agents
Especially since the economic crash in 2008, sociologists have seen a ___________ transition to adulthood among younger people who are not doing things like getting married, buying homes, or having children at the ages that previous generations did.
delayed
The interactional technique of ___________ is a skill exercised particularly by Black Americans, which allows people to utilize a racially specific dialect of English when among social in-groups, but readily adopt a way of speaking that is given more credence as "proper" or "correct" within white-dominated institutions or interactions.
Human conversation is so ___________ that even the most sophisticated computers and devices still cannot mirror it well enough to successfully converse with us.
complex/complicated
One definitive attribute of a bureaucracy is a clear division of ___________ , within which the responsibilities of each position are specific to a certain aspect of the organization's functioning.
labor
Kids' pretend play as occupations like doctor or firefighter is one way that culture is transmitted through the process known as social ___________.
reproduction
The ___________ theory of ageing purports that those in later life will be most fulfilled and successful during this stage if they participate in activities that align with their personalities and are similar to things they enjoyed in middle-age and young adulthood.
continuity
By studying everyday social interaction we can observe routines and patterns in social life as well as spontaneous actions. This helps us to better understand how individual ___________ is situated within the social structure.
agency or action
The internet defies traditional limits of ___________ and ___________ to the point where we can instantaneously contact and communicate in real time with others who may be thousands of miles away.
time and space
Experiments like the Asch line-test, the Standford prison experiment, and Milgram's study of how far a person will go to appease someone in a position of authority, all demonstrate how susceptible humans are to ___________ .
conformity
As humans develop a sense of self through early socialization, we begin to move away from the ___________ that characterizes our infancy and toddlerhood.
egocentrism
Unlike Piaget's model for child development, which asserts that there are consistent and measurable stages associated with certain ages, sociologists like ___________ argued that social influences and interactions were of primary importance to children's development.
Lev Vygotsky
The phenomenon of civil inattention, an awareness of others without interaction, is related to the ____________ attitude that sociologist Georg Simmel asserted is characteristic of dense, overstimulating urban spaces.
blasé
The vastness of social media means that individuals now have unlimited capacity to compare our own attitudes and behaviors to the standards of a given ___________.
reference group
The saying "it's not what you know, it's who you know" is a demonstration of the importance of social ___________ .
capital