Exam 3 Flashcards

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socialization

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lifelong (post-natally) social experience that develops human potential and learning culture

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(dr. k) best way to understand the relationship between nature and nurture

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nature - genetic potential, innate, dna-based

nurture - teaching/learning, non dna-based

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why is social experience important to socialization?

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To learn culture, survive, and form personality

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Three types of social environments–severely deprived, normal, and enriched–have different effects on genotypes. What can we reasonably infer about the effects of these environments for humans?

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What do we learn from the Harlow studies of social isolation of rhesus monkeys?

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What do we learn from the study of social isolation of human children?

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Why according to Dr. K are findings on social isolation of humans children difficult to interpret?

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What are the major theories of human socialization?

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Elements of personality, cognitive development, moral development, gender and moral development, social self, and 8 stages of development

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What are the major concepts of each theory of socialization?

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What are the potential limitations of each theory?

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Can you clearly describe each stage in those theories that propose multiple stages in development?

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What is meant by an ‘agent of socialization’?

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Social experiences that affect us in small ways

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What are the major agents of socialization?

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Family, school, peer group, mass media,

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What is the order in which these major agents of socialization typically influence development?

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peer group

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social group whose members have interests, social position, and age in common

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anticipatory socialization

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learning that helps a person achieve a desired position

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mass media

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means for delivering impersonal communications to a vast audience

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What is Dr. K’s friendly amendment to Macionis’ description of mass media?

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What is meant by ‘socialization across the life course’?

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Continuity of learning throughout lives in stages

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gerontology

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Study of aging and elderly

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What are Kubler-Ross’s five major stages for grieving a major loss?

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denial, anger, bargain, depression, acceptance

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cohort

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category of people with something in common (age)

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Why is the understanding of the concept ‘cohort’ important to understanding variation in the life course?

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Members of a particular age group are generally influenced by same economic and cultural trends

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resocialization

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radically changing an inmate’s personality by carefully controlling the environment

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total institution
setting in which people are isolated and manipulated by administrative staff
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What are three major traits of a total institution?
Constant supervision, controlled and standardized life, and formal rules
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What are the two primary stages in resocialization in a total institution?
Breaking down and building back up
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social interaction
Process by which people act and react in relation to others
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social structure
Any relatively stable pattern of behavior
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What are the major characteristics of a social structure?
Status and role
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status
social position that a person holds
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role
behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status
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status set
all status a person gives
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ascribed status
involuntary social position or given at birth
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achieved status
voluntary social position that reflects personal ability and effort
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master status
status with special importance for social identity, often shaping a person's entire life
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role set
of roles attached to a single status
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role conflict
conflict among roles connected to 2+ statuses
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role strain
tension among roles connected to a single status
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role exit
Process by which people disengage from important social roles
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the social construction of reality
process by which people creatively shape reality through social interaction
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What is meant by ‘the social construction of reality’?
People shape their own reality through social interaction
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What is ‘the Thomas Theorem’ and why is it important to social interaction?
Claim that situations defined as real are real in their consequences
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What is the ‘dramaturgical approach’ and what are its key concepts?
focuses on human performance
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What is the significance of emotions for social interaction?
What we do often matters less than how we feel about it
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What is the significance of language for social interaction?
Differentiates between gender
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What is the significance of humor for social interaction?
Everyone laughs at a joke, but few people stop to think about what makes something funny
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Structural theory
Freud
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Theory of cognitive development
Piaget
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Theory of moral development
Lawrence Kohlberg
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Theory of gender and moral development
Carol Gilligan
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Theory of social self
George Herbert Mead
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Eight stages of development
Erickson
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Piaget's theory of cognitive development
Sensorimotor, pre operational, concrete operational, formal operational
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Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development
Pre conventional, conventional, and post conventional
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Erickson's eight stages of development
Toddlerhood, preschool, pre adolescence, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, and old age
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Childhood
0-12
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Adolescence
13-19
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Adulthood
Early - 20-39 | Middle - 40-64
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Old age
65-