Sociology chapter four Self and Society Flashcards

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What is human nature

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-nature versus nurture
- are we the people that we are because of our:
-genetics?
-socialization?
-both?

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The process of socialization

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  • Socialization
    *Values, beliefs, and norms of social groups:
    *Society teaches . . .
    *Individuals learn and internalize . . .
    *Birth death
  • Language facilities socialization.
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Agents of Socialization

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Agents of Socialization
*Social groups, institutions, and individuals that provide structured situations where socialization occurs.
*Family
*Schools
*Peers
*Mass media

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Status

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*Position in society that comes with a set of expectations.

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Statuses and roles; ascribed rules

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One we are born with that is unlikely to change such as our gender or race

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Statuses and roles;embodies status

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Is located in our physical selves such as beauty or disability

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Statuses and roles;achieved status

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This is one that we have earned through our own efforts such as an occupation hobby or skill

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Statuses and roles;master status

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Status that seems to override all others and affects all other statuses that we possess

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Stereotyping

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Judging others based on preconceived generalization about groups or categories of people

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Roles

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Behaviors expected from a particular status

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Role conflict

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Roles associated with one status clash with the roles associated with a different status

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Role strain

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Roles associated with a single status clash

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Role exit

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The process of disengagement from Rome that essential to one’s self identity and establishment of an identity in a new role.

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Resocialization

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Process of replacing previously learned norms and values with new ones as a part of a transition in life.

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Total institutions

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*Cuts individuals off from the rest of society so that their lives can be controlled and regulated.
*Dramatic form of resocialization
*Prison, military, mental health unit

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Sigmund freud

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Subconscious and unconscious mind

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The development of the self-

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Personal identity
*Separate and different from all other people
*Created and modified through social interaction

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Charles cooley

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Looking-glass self
*The self develops through our:
*Perception of others’ evaluations
*Appraisals of (interactions with) us

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Looking-Glass Self

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-We imagine how we look to others.

*We imagine other people’s judgment of us.

*We experience some kind of feeling about ourselves based on our perception of other people’s judgment.

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George Herbert Mead

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Self created through social interaction.
*Process started in childhood.

-stages of self:
-preparatory
-play
Particular other
-game stage
-generalized other

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Erving Goffman

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*Meaning is constructed through interaction.
*And the self!
*Dramaturgy
*Compares social interaction to the theater
*Individuals take on roles and act them out
The Thomas Theorem
*“if people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.”

*Ambiguous situations allow for many possible meanings.
*The way we define each situation, then, becomes its reality.

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Impression management

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Social life as a game
*We work to control the impressions others have of us.

*Front *Backstage

*Personal front
*Frontstage

*Region

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Feeling rules

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Norms regarding the expression and display of emotions expectations about the sexual or desirable feelings in a given situation

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Copresence

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Face-to-face interaction or being in the presence of others

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Role-taking emotions

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Emotions like sympathy embarrassment or shame that require we assume the perspective of another person or poop and respond accordingly

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Emotional labor

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The process invoking suppressing and otherwise managing things to create a publicly observable display of emotion