Chapter 3 Flashcards
Socialization
Lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture
Personality
Person’s fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, feeling
Social Isolation
Lacking socialization
In children its harmful to personality and development
Freud’s Model of Personality
Id- basic drives, unconscious
Ego- conscious efforts to balance desires with society
Superego- cultural norms and values internalized by an individual, the moral component
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
Sensorimotor Stage, Pre-operational Stage, Concrete Operational Stage, Formal Operational Stage
Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development
Pre conventional Stage, Conventional Stage, Post Conventional Stage
Carol Gilligan’s Theory of Gender and Moral Development
Boys and girls have different standards of righteousness
Boys have a justice perspective
Girls have a care and responsibility perspective
George Herbert Meads Theory of the Social Self
Self- part of an individual’s personality composed of self-awareness an self-image
Looking-glass self- self image based on how we think others see us
Significant Others- people who special importance for socialization
Generalized Other- widespread cultural norms and values we use as references in evaluating ourselves
Erik Erikson’s Eight Stages of Development
Trust vs Mistrust, Autonomy vs. Doubt and Shame, Intuitive vs. Guilt, Industriousness vs Inferiority, Identity vs. Role Confusion, Intimacy vs. Isolation, Making a Difference vs. Self Absorption, Integrity vs. Despair
Agents of Socialization
Family, School, Peer Groups, Mass Media
Anticipatory Socialization
Learning that helps a person achieve a desired position
Mass Media
The means for delivering impersonal communication to a vast audience
Gerontology
The study of aging and the elderly
Total Institution
A setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society and controlled by an administrative staff
Prison, psychiatric wards
Resocialization
Radically changing an inmates personality by carefully controlling the environment
