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define socialization

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the process in which you acquire skills and knowledge to participate in society

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the forbidden experiment was

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if you could take a newborn infant and completely isolate it from society, how would it develop?

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Jean-Marc Itard

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focused on the care, treatment, and training of “Victor”, wanted to “socialize” him to become famous

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Genie

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A girl who was locked up for 14 Years and when she was found, she had missed the critical period where she could have learned language so she could not speak and was extremely disabled

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Sigmund Freud

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Austrian physician who worked for Dr Joseph Breuer. Developed a famous thesis

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Freuds Thesis

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That the human mind has 3 major components

1) ID - part of personality governed by instincts, does not care about society/culture
2) Ego - Logical part of mind, looks at world in rational way
3) Super-ego - conscience, sense of right and wrong

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How do you test Freuds thesis?

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You can’t, its unstable

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Jean Piaget

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Interested in human cognitive developement

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Piget’s question

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How do human beings acquire the ability to think logically

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Piget’s theory

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1) sensory motor - (birth-2 years.) Too young to think logically, kids learn through senses and motor skill
2) Pre-occupational (2-6 years) kids learn for first time to use basic symbols, reading, writing, basic math, etc.
3) Concrete operational (6-11 yrs) kids can do more advanced math, types of thinking
4) Formal operational (11+) involves hypothetical thinking. people at stage 4 can think at a high level of abstract reasoning

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self concept

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how you think of yourself as an individual; socially constructed

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looking-glass self

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how you think of your self is strongly influenced by how you think other people think of you

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who developed the self-concept and looking glass self theories?

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Charles Cooley

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generalized other

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you become sensitive to the norms and values of your culture

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agents of socialization

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family (most important), school, mass media, workplace

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socialization and the life course

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Stage 1) Childhood (birth-12)
Stage 2) Adolescences (12-17)
Stage 3) Young adult (17-29)
Stage 4) Middle adulthood (29-65)
Stage 5) Senior citizen (65+)
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what is the fastest growing age group

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seniors. specifically 80+

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what is the age group 14 and under doing?

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decreasing

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praying of the population

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evidenced by a population pyramid showing the population age median getting older

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Population pyramid

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what is the share of the Canadian population distribution in 2016?

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Why is the population graying?

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Birth rate: it is below the placement level (RL)

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What is the meaning of “replacement” level?

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population staying the same (not growing or shrinking)

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What is the magic RL? for population to stay stable

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2.1 births / family

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what was the Canadian birth rate in 2016?

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1.6 births / family

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Why is the birth rate lower in developed countries?
Post-industrial societies are not as dependant on their parents Growing children have financial independence social relationship between parents and children changed drastically in last few decades
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define social structure
stable patterns of relationships that you find in society
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rule of the fathers
a lot of economic and political power in society held by men
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what is the stats-can GSS survey?
general social survey on housework participation
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what are the results of the GSS between 1986-2015
men had a modest increase in core housework participation, whereas women had a small decrease
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what s the difference between social structure and culture?
social structure is how society is organized | culture is why society is organized as it is
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what is status
social position one occupies (parent, student, occupant)
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what is the status set?
a collection of social statuses that an individual holds
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what is an ascribed status?
statuses born with or acquired by default later (teen, senior)
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what is an achieved status?
statuses which are achieved through effort such as your profession, a college graduate
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what is a master status
1 status which overrides all the other statuses one has
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what us the effect of society on master status?
society imposes status, not the individual
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what s a stigmatized master status
master status which is negative, such as homelessness
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what is a role?
behaviour expected of a given status
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what is a role set?
roles taken collectively
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What is role conflict
different roles lead to different conflicts
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what is role strain?
strain between roles linked with a single status; always linked with a single status (med intern; student and physician role)
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what is role exit
where you leave/exit a role important to self-identity. Shifting of master status
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what is the basic pattern for role exit?
1) doubt 2) search for alternatives 3) reach a turning point 4) take on a new role
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who created the Thomas theorem?
W.I. Thomas
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what is the basis of the Thomas theorem?
stations defined as real are real in their consequences. Belief produces behaviour which makes original belief come true
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What is another term for the Thomas Theorem?
the self-fulfilling prophecy
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what is ethnomethodology?
the study of how people make sense of others
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who is related to ethnomethodology?
Harold Garfinkel
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What is the flexibility range of norms in society?
Inflexible to very flexible
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What is dramaturgical analysis?
People's behaviour is like actors on stage.People 'perform' in a way society expects
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who studied dramaturgical analysis?
Erving Goffman
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what is impression management?
you try to project the best image of yourself to the people around you
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what is idealization?
people try to convince others that their behaviour is noble, rather then selfish
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what is emotional labour?
the work people do to suppress or enhance the intensity and duration of their emotions
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what is role distancing
when you deemphasize the importance of your role
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who studied gender and social interaction?
Deborah Tannen
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what did she say about men and women's assumption of words?
they differ between men and women
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describe the academic conference results
women asked a quarter of the questions and their questions were half as long as mens
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how are the above results interpreted
men are more comfortable with public speaking, "report talk" | women are more comfortable with private speaking "rapport talk"
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who was Genie's psychologist?
James Kent
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who later took charge of the Genie investigation and became her foster parent?
David Wriggler
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What caused some researchers to theorize Genie had brain damage?
she had high sleep spindles which were abnormal
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what is the critical period hypothesis?
the first few years life is the crucial time in which an individual can acquire a first language if presented with adequate stimuli
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who popularized the critical period hypothesis?
Eric Lenneberg
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How was Genie's vocab and grammar?
decent vocab, poor grasp of grammatical concepts
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what was the main question derived from the Genie experiment/rehab?
Did the team go as far they could to treat Genie, or did research get in the way?

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