Basic Vocab
Socially defined expectations that a person follows.
ROLES
Where we present ourselves to others.
FRONT STAGE
The ways in which individuals learn and recreate skills, knowledge, values, motives, and roles appropriate in society.
SOCIALIZATION
The process by which initially external behavioral standards become internal and subsequently guide the person’s behavior.
INTERNALIZATION
2 classes: bourgeoisie is the capitalist class and proletariat is the working class; class conflict and exploitation; class struggle is the means of bringing about changes in society’s mode of production.
MARXISM
A person’s position in a group or society.
STATUS
Impression management is relaxed; we may practice our performance.
BACK STAGE
Where a child first experiences public evaluation of performance, avenues of social comparison.
SCHOOL
Views socialization as reliant on processes of physical and psychological maturation. Emphasis on the unfolding of the child’s abilities.
DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE
An idea about analyzing and critically thinking about how you fit into society; an approach to thinking that serves to connect the private problems of men to the public issues of social structure.
SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
How we present ourselves, play roles, and manage impressions.
DRAMATURGY
All areas of social life are conducted in the same place.
TOTAL INSTITUTIONS
This is a group of people that are of equal status to yourself; interacting with these people is voluntary; these might be people you emulate.
PEERS
Emphasizes the child’s acquisition of cognitive and behavioral skills; Socialization is a process of learning the shared meanings of the groups in which they are raised.
SOCIAL LEARNING PERSPECTIVE
To study any aspect of society, it must be examined as part of a whole. Society is made of structures, each with a particular function. Includes manifest and latent functions.
FUNCTIONALISM
The ways individuals seek to control the impressions they convey to others.
IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT
People have various roles and act differently in each. There can be different expectations for specific encounters.
AUDIENCE SEGREGATION
Provides a foundation for the sense of self and is connected to the idea of secure attachment.
FAMILY
The incidence, duration, and sequence of roles, and to the relevant expectations and beliefs based on age over the life course; This impacts beliefs and expectations about age-linked patterns of behavior and impacts resources available to manage major events.
SOCIAL TIMING
Theory that society exists as the network of interactions between people; Self and society cannot exist without one another; associated with George Herbert Mead.
SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONIST PERSPECTIVE
Actions done to maintain a positive self-image when interacting with others.
FACE WORK
Constitutes a collaboration of defensive orientation and protective orientation.
FACE WORK
Where people learn cultural norms about appropriate behavior and managing emotions.
WORKPLACE
The process where a person learns what response to make in a situation in order to obtain a positive reinforcement or avoid a negative reinforcement.
INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING
Term coined by W. E. B. Du Bois to describe an individual whose identity is divided into several facets; describes the internal conflict experienced by subordinated groups in an oppressive society.
DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS