The transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to children.
What is heredity?
100
The interactive process through which people learn the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of a society.
What is socialization?
100
A setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society for a set period of time. Examples are prisons, mental hospitals, and boot camps.
What is total institution?
100
Wild or untamed children.
What are feral children?
100
Inherited genetic characteristics versus environment and social learning.
What is nature vs. nuture debate?
200
An unchanging, biologically inherited behavior pattern.
What is instinct?
200
The part of ourself that is aware of the expectations and attitudes of society.
What is me?
200
The most important agent of socialization.
What is the family?
200
The systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior.
What is sociobiology?
200
Developed the idea of the looking-glass self.
Who is Charles Horton Cooley?
300
A feral child who was kept in a room with only a potty-chair and crib, who showed that normal social development in children depends on human interaction.
Who is Genie?
300
The unsocialized, spontaneous, self-interested component of personality.
What is I?
300
A primary group composed of individuals of roughly equal age and similar social characteristics.
What is peer group?
300
Your conscious awareness of possessing a distinct identity that separates you and your environment from other members of society.
What is self?
300
Claimed that the self consists of the "I" and the "me".
Who is George Herbert Mead?
400
The sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are characteristic of an individual.
What is personality?
400
The people closest to us such as parents, siblings, and relatives.
Who are significant others?
400
Occupies large amounts of time and attention for most young people, where deliberate and unintentional socialization occurs.
What is school?
400
The internalized attitudes of society take on added importance in guiding behavior and reinforcing our sense of self.
What is the generalized other?
400
Insisted that each newly born human being is a tabula rasa, or clean slate.
Who is John Locke?
500
A capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge.
What is aptitude?
500
The interactive process by which we develop an image of ourselves based on how we imagine we appear to others.
What is the looking-glass self?
500
Instruments of communication that reach large audiences with no personal contact between those sending the information and those receiving it.
What is mass media?
500
A break with past experiences and the learning of new values and norms.