One of these is not one of the predominant agents of socialization in contemporary society:
family
religion
schools
peers
mass media
What is religion?
100
The process by which people learn the norms, values, and beliefs of their culture
What is socialization?
100
We imagine how we appear to those around us.
We imagine others’ evaluations of us.
We experience feelings based on this perception
What is the looking glass self?
100
This is characterized by long-term, intimate relationships.
What are primary relationships?
100
Asylums, prisons, and cults are examples of these.
What are total institutions?
200
This has written rules, a division of labor, and a focus on efficiency.
What is a bureaucracy?
200
The term for our personal identity that is separate and different from all other people.
What is the self?
200
This person said if people “define a situation as real, it is real in its consequences".
Who is W.I. Thomas?
200
When group members withhold their own opinions for the sake of consensus, they are engaging in this.
What is groupthink?
200
This involves behaviors associated with a status.
What is a role?
300
This leadership style tries to gain a consensus while maintaining the final decision making authority
What is democratic?
300
This is a position in society that comes with a set of expectations
What is a status?
300
Erving Goffman theorized social life as a game, in which each individual works to control the impressions that others have of her. Goffman had a term for this.
What is impression management?
300
The sense of solidarity and loyalty a person feels towards their group.
What is group cohesion?
300
The webs of direct and indirect ties connecting individuals to other people
What is a social network?
400
This kind of power involves threats and intimidation.
What is coercive?
400
When one individual has multiple roles that are in conflict
What is role conflict?
400
This explains how we develop a self-concept based on our perceptions of others’ judgments of us.
What is the looking glass self?
400
This experiment demonstrated that groups have great power to induce conformity and that peer pressure is powerful.
What is the Asch Experiment?
400
Leadership that is more task-oriented (versus nurturing).
What is instrumental?
500
This stage of Mead's theory of self-concept involves pretending to be a princess, fireperson, etc.
What is the play stage?
500
A status is one we are born with and is unlikely to change
What is an ascribed status?
500
1. to ensure that society continues to exist
2. to teach norms, values, and beliefs
3. to teach individuals how to avoid danger and defend themselves
4.to teach the skills necessary to satisfy basic human needs
What are the goals of socialization?
500
This type of conformity occurs when an individual adopts the beliefs or actions of a group and makes them her own.
What is internalization?
500
Punctuality, neatness, and discipline are taught as part of this at schools.
What are things learned from the hidden curriculum?