What is the role of socialization?
The two variables that interact to shape human development.
What is heredity and environment?
A distinct identity that sets us apart from others. It is not a static phenomena but continues to develop and change throughout our lives.
What is "the self"?
These three agents of socialization play a role in gender socialization.
What are family, school and peer group?
Celebrating these is a means of dramatizing and validating changes in a person's status.
What are rites of passage?
This perspective advocates that messages communicated through various forms of socialization will reflect inequity such as the unequal distribution of power and resources of a capitalist society.
What is Conflict?
Social interactions with peers are critical for.
What is emotional growth?
Our view of ourselves comes not only from direct contemplation of our personal qualities but also from our impressions of how others perceive us.
What is the Looking Glass Self?
A relatively formal period of socialization in which caregivers impose schedules for eating and sleeping as well as introducing new foods.
What is habit training?
This perspective and theory emphasize that passing social roles on from one generation to another ensures social stability when considering aging and society.
What are Functionalist and Disengagement Theory?
Socialization, according to this perspective, serves to ensure that the members of a given society share or buy into the basic values of that society in order to promote consensus or agreement and stability.
What is Functionalist?
Conflict theorists fear this approach could be used as an argument against efforts to assist disadvantaged people.
What is the Sociobiology Approach?
By interacting with relatives and friends as well as watching cartoons on television and looking at picture books, children in this stage begin to understand the use of symbols.
What is the Preparatory Stage?
This group increasingly assume the role of Mead's significant others while the family becomes somewhat less important in the social development, as a child grows.
What is the peer group?
This perspective considers the impact of social class on the lives of the elderly. Specifically, how the privileged position of the upper class generally leads to better health and vigour and a lower likelihood of dependency in old age.
What is conflict?
The systematic study of the biological bases of social behaviour.
What is Sociobiology?
Psychologist Leon Kamin fears that overgeneralizing twin results, may lead to blaming the poor and downtrodden for their unfortunate condition, granting to much importance to the impact of this variable.
What is heredity?
In Interactionist theory of the emergence of self, this model's second stage includes the child learning to pretend to be other people.
What is the Stages of Self?
This agent of socialization is not always negative but can help children learn about the lives of others, introduced communications methods not previously available to developing areas.
What is mass media and technology?
An aspect of the socialization process within total institutions in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals.
What is a degradation ceremony?
This group endorses individual freedom and equality of opportunity, which for them takes place in the public or economic sphere, no the provide or domestic sphere.
What is Equality Feminists?
This perspective could show how social behaviour is not programmed by human biology but instead adjusts continually to the attitudes and responses of others.
What is Interactionist?
The work of these three theorists represents a logical progression of how personality is acquired through socialization and how we manage the presentation of ourselves to others.
Who are Cooley, Mead and Goffman?
Wilbert Moore has discussed this agent of socialization in terms of his four phases.
What is the workplace?
This perspective and theory contend that older people have essentially the same need for social interaction as any other group.
What are Interactionist and Activity Theory?
Social interaction is the key to development, according to this theorist. As they grow older, children give increasing attention to how other people think and why they act in particular ways.
Who is Jean Piaget?