Flashcards in Exam 3 Deck (60)
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socialization
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
nature - genetic potential, innate, dna-based
nurture - teaching/learning, non dna-based
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why is social experience important to socialization?
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?
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’?
Social experiences that affect us in small ways
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What are the major agents of socialization?
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
social group whose members have interests, social position, and age in common
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anticipatory socialization
learning that helps a person achieve a desired position
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mass media
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’?
Continuity of learning throughout lives in stages
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gerontology
Study of aging and elderly
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What are Kubler-Ross’s five major stages for grieving a major loss?
denial, anger, bargain, depression, acceptance
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cohort
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?
Members of a particular age group are generally influenced by same economic and cultural trends
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resocialization
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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