Socialization
Harry Harlow raised monkeys with either a wire mother or a cloth mother. He found that monkeys became attached to their mothers because of this
What is contact or touch?
After being released from prison, you start committing new crimes.
What is recidivism?
In school you must raise your hand if you would like to speak in class.
What is a norm?
When you are a self-made millionaire you are a member of this class.
What is the lower-upper class?
DAILY DOUBLE: Something you learn in school about our culture that has nothing to do with academics.
What is the hidden curriculum?
When Jim lets people know he just got out of prison they start treating him differently.
What is a stigma?
Throwing rice at a newly married couple is an example of this kind of norm.
What is a folkway?
The aristocracy. People whose families have been wealthy for generations.
What is the upper-upper class?
A mental hospital, prison and a cult are all examples of something that controls every aspect of a person's socialization.
What is a total institution?
DAILY DOUBLE: Inner-city murder cases take years to solve. Some never get solved. But when crimes are committed in upper class neighborhoods the police work to solve them quickly.
What is victim discounting?
DAILY DOUBLE: In the United States most people believe that every child is entitled to a free education.
What is a value?
DAILY DOUBLE: Also known as the lower-middle class. Jobs often require physical labor and pay an hourly wage. Example, plumber.
What is the working class?
A child develops her self-concept by imagining how other people will react to her. Other people serve as mirrors for the development of the self.
What is the looking-glass self?
Strain theory says that if a person badly wants to succeed but is unable to find a job he may become deviant and start selling drugs to make money.
What is innovation?
Lisa cheats whenever she play cards. Now her friends stopped playing cards with her.
What is an informal sanction?
Often work only part-time or are unemployed. Many are disabled and they often lack an education or job skills.
What is the underclass?
The people whose norms and values we use to guide our behavior. The people we identify with.
What is a reference group?
According to strain theory, those who reject society's goals and stop even trying to reach them. An example would be a high school dropout who has no desire to get a job.
What is retreatism?
Breaking the rules by taking the air out of footballs to make them easier to throw and catch would be a violation of this kind of norm.
What is a mores?
Employed in low-skilled jobs with little pay. Unskilled manual laborers, fast food workers and retail clerks.
What is the working poor?