Research & Methods
Culture
Perspectives
Socialization and Life Course
Agents of Socialization
100
A set of written questions that are either given respondents to complete or are posted to them
What is Questionnaires
100
What is Culture?
is the totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior
100
Sees society working as a whole and each individual part played is important to the functions of society
Functionalism
100
Is used to refer to a person's typical patterns of attitude, needs, characteristics, and behavior
What is personality
100

Refers to the process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one’s life.

What is Resocialization
200
Designed to allow respondents to give their own answers to questions
What is Open-ended questions
200
All societies that develop certain common practices and beliefs is known as what?
 Cultural Universals
200
Focuses on women in a patriarchal society and the unfair representation of women
Feminist
200

Children merely imitate the people around them, especially family members with whom they continually interact

What is Preparatory Stage
200

Typically begins at about age 40. Men and women often experience a stressful period of self-evaluation, commonly known as the

Midlife Crisis
300
To represent as exactly as possible one or many of the social characteristics of members of the sampling frame.
What is Stratified Random Sampling
300
What is cultural relativism?
Viewing someones culture from their own perspective
300
Focuses on inequality in society based on the economy
Marxism
300

The child of about age eight or nine no longer just plays roles but begins to consider several tasks and relationships simultaneously

The Game Stage
300

A period of anticipatory socialization as the person prepares for retirement

What is Preretirement 
400
What is reliability?
Refers to the extent in which a measure produces the same consistent results
400
When a person uses gestures, facial expressions, and other visual images to communicate, this is called what type of communication?
What is Non-Verbal Communication
400
Has no qualitative data, doesn't see how individuals act in society
Functionalism
400
"Looking Glass-Self"
George Herbert Meade
400

A period in which the person has learned to deal with life after retirement in a reasonable and comfortable fashion

What is the Stability Stage
500
A possible relationship between two or more variables
What is Hypothesis
500
Movie theaters in the United States typically expect people to remain quiet during the film. As a society, we view this type of behavior as what?
The Norm
500
Says individuals should do what they want because no one has the right answer
Post Modernist
500

Refers to expectations regarding the proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females.

What is Gender Roles
500

An often euphoric period in which the person pursues activities that he or she never had time for until retirement 

Honeymoon Phase
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