Social Behavior
The cultural process of how to participate in group life
What is socialization?
This unconscious and rapid process is how we view ourselves as an individual.
What is self-concept?
We use role taking to shape our...
What is self-concept?
This agent is our first exposure to socialization.
What is family?
Bootcamp, prisons and mental health hospitals are examples of
What is a total institution?
Socialization teaches us how to walk, talk, express emotions, and even shapes our beliefs. This term refers to the learned functions listed above.
Charles Horton Cooley developed the term describing your concept of yourself based on how you believe others see you.
What is the looking-glass self?
Pretending to be a police officer or teacher occurs during this time in Mead’s stages.
What is the play stage?
This agent of socialization is most influential during the middle school years
What is peer group?
This is the second step of socialization, after a prisoner has given up old ways, when they are issued standard clothing, given a haircut, and deprived of privacy. This is an example of ____
What is resocialization?
Harry Harlow’s experiments with rhesus monkeys proved that this is important
What is social interaction/contact comfort?
This is the most important determinant of our looking-glass self.
What are significant others?
Being prepared to be up at bat in a T-ball game, knowing teammates will fulfill their roles on the team
What is the game stage?
This agent of socialization is typically the only one that is not controlled primarily by adults.
What are peer groups?
Name a tool that is used to gage anticipatory socialization, for example looking at the norms of members a professional team you are trying out for
What are reference groups?
This is the span of development in which social behavior is learned.
What is birth and continues throughout life?
In the looking-glass self, other people serve as this in developing the self.
What are mirrors?
This term explains the situation where, rather than trying to impress significant others in our lives, we see ourselves as separate individuals.
What is the generalized other?
This agent of socialization helps students to become less emotionally dependent on their caregivers.
What are schools?
The role taking of a college senior looking to enter the work force
What is anticipatory socialization?
Name two of the girls whose case studies taught us that personal and social development is acquired through prolonged social interaction.
Who are Genie and Oxana?
Our self-concept and looking-glass self may align or conflict with one another. This is because they are not necessarily... ___
What are accurate/realistic representations?
The first reaction of the self comes from this, but our reactions are filtered through this, according to Cookie Monster (smile)
What is I; What is me?
This is often where most children are first introduced to numerous aspects of their culture and try to emulate what they are exposed to
What is mass media?
Truman was living in a ____ throughout the film
What is a total institution?