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What is a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of a society for a period of time and are subject to tight control
What is a total institution?
The experiment to see how far people would go due to their roles.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment
the behaviour expected of an individual who occupies a given social position or status
What is a role?
an individual's perception of their identity.
What is Sense of Self
socialization: The process of learning one’s culture and how to live within it.
What is Socialization?
Social interaction is like a drama being preformed
What is dramaturgy?
The experiment was designed to test how people will conform due to social pressure .
a rank or position that someone holds
What is a status?
The person who was instrumental In the research of the social self.
Who is George Mead?
occurs when a child learns the attitudes, values,and actions appropriate to individuals as members of a particular culture.
What is primary socialization?
A group of two or more people who identify with and interact with one another .
What is social group?
The experiment was designed to see how much authority affects someone's decision.
What is the Milgram Obedience Experiment ?
status that is earned based on merit;
What is Achieved status
focuses on competition and social change
What is conflict perspective?
refers to the process of learning the appropriate behavior as a member of a smaller group within the larger society.
What is Secondary Socialization?
The process one goes through to detach from a role that has been essential to his/her identity.
What is Role Exit ?
This experiment took place at Yale University.
What is the Milgram Obedience Experiment?
Stress someone may feel if too much is required of a single role
What is Role strain
the theory wherein individuals base their sense of self on how they believe others view them
What is looking Glass Self?
the theory that an individual’s peer groups, rather than parental figures, influences his or her personality and behavior in adulthood.
What is Group socialization?
The Web of relationships across groups that occurs because of the many groups people belong to.
What is Social Networks?
What increases conformity?
Judge discretion.
how a person expresses his or her role
What is Role performance?
The person who created the looking Glass Self Theory
Who is Charles Cooley?
the process by which people learn about future roles and expectations in order to prepare for them.
What is Anticipatory Socialization?