Chapter 4 - Socialization: The Self and Social Identity

Question 1

What are the four agents of socialization?

Answer 1

Family, school, peers, media

Question 2

What are social structures?

Answer 2

the framework of social patterns and cultural elements, without them, we would arrive to school not knowing what comes next.

Question 3

Social structures also consist of three elements:

Answer 3

Roles and Statuses
Social Groups
Social Institutions

Question 4

What is the difference between a status and a role?

Answer 4

A status is a recognized social position (mother, father) and a role is the behavior associated with it (nurturing, caring)

Question 5

What is Anticipatory socialization?

Answer 5

Individuals learn about the roles associated with a particular status BEFORE taking on the status (classes for new parents)

Question 6

What is a status set?

Answer 6

A status set is the total of statuses a person occupies

Question 7

What is role conflict? Give an example.

Answer 7

Conflict between the roles of different statues. Example: Taylor is a student and an employee and she has a shift during the time she should be studying

Question 8

What is Role strain? Give an example.

Answer 8

Conflict between roles of the same statuses.
Example: Dave has multiple assignments due and a test

Question 9

What are social groups?

Answer 9

two or more people who share relevant cultural elements (job, grade, class, sport)

Question 10

What is a social Network?

Answer 10

The linking of social groups together

Question 11

What does it mean to perform better on stage (how you act around people) then in rehearsals (by yourself)

Answer 11

Social Facilitation

Question 12

What is Groupthink? Give an example.

Answer 12

Group consensus over a rational decision. Example: Space shuttle disaster

Question 13

What is the difference between social structures and social institutions?

Answer 13

Social structures are the conventions and patterns of society that create common sense and structure while Institutions are a societal structure that is relatively permanent (like school, family)

Question 14

What is an example of a social institution?

Answer 14

Bureaucracy -a formal organizational model consisting of an explicit chain of authority and a set of procedures and protocols that guide relationships.

Question 15

What concept is Max Weber conceptualizing when he describes a form of bureaucracy as including a division of labour, a hierarchy of authority, written rules and regulations, impersonality in decision making, and employment based on qualifications

Answer 15

An Ideal Type

Question 16

What are the five stages of grief, according to Kubler Ross, when someone knows they are going to die?

Answer 16

1. Denial, Shock, and disbelief
2. Anger, hostility, and resentment
3. Bargaining and pleading to a higher power
4. Depression, sorrow, guilt, and shame
5. Acceptance, discussing their feelings openly

Question 17

What is resocialization? What is a degradation ceremony?

Answer 17

Resocialization is the learning of new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviours to match a new situation. Generally from being in a total institution, where they may do a degradation ceremony, or a stripping one ones former self (military, religion)

Question 18

What is the definition of socialization? When does it begin and what is the most influential time for it?

Answer 18

when people learn to become members of society, begins at birth, infancy and early childhood are kids most important times for socialization

Question 19

What is someones self concept?

Answer 19

the sense of who someone is based on similarities and differences from others.

Question 20

What is the difference between someone’s social and personal identity?

Answer 20

Social identities are who we are based on the social groups we consider ourselves a part of (Canadian, woman), while personal identities are the ways we consider ourselves to be unique individuals (the personality traits we collect throughout our lives)

Question 21

How do sociologists define the “self?”

Answer 21

Comprised of a set of learned values and attitudes which develop through social interactions