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Chapter 5
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Sociology
12th Grade
03/30/2010

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Personality
Definition
sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs and values that are characteristic of an individual
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Peer group
Definition
A primary group composed of individuals of equal age and social characteristics
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Resocialization
Definition
Break with past experiences and the learning of new values and norms
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Self
Definition
Conscious awareness of posessing a distinct identity that seperates us from other members of society
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Role-taking
Definition
Taking or pretending to take the role of others
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Generalized other
Definition
internalized attitudes, expectations, and view points of society that we use to guide our behavior and reinforce our sense of self
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Total institution
Definition
setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society for a set period of time and subjected to the control of officials of varied ranks
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Me
Definition
part of identity that is aware of the expectations and attitudes of society, the socialized self
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Heredity
Definition
Transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to children
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Socialization
Definition
The interactive process through which people learn the basic skills, values, beliefs and behavior patterns of society
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Significant others
Definition
specific people, such as parents, brothers, sisters, other relatives and friends, who have a direct influence on our socialization
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I
Definition
unsocialized, spntaneous, self-interested component of the personality and self identity
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Instinct
Definition
Unchanging, biologically inherited behavior pattern
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Feral children
Definition
wild or untamed children
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Mass media
Definition
newspapers, magazines, books, television, radio, films and other forms of communication that reach large audiences without personal contact between the individuals sending the information and those sending it
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Agents of socialization
Definition
Specific individuals, groups and institutions that provide the situations in which socialization can occur
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Looking-Glass self
Definition
Interactive process by which we develop an image of ourselves based on how we imagine we appear to others
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Aptitude
Definition
Capacity to learn aparticular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge
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Sociobiology
Definition
Systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior
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Tabula Rasa
Definition
Clean slate- John Locke
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George Herbert Mead
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Who developed the idea of role-taking
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Heredity

Birth order

Parents

Cultural environment

Definition
What are the principal factors identified as influencing personality and behavior?
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Culture or society
Definition
By looking at feral children we can see that our personality is MAINLY influenced by?
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Charles Horton Cooley
Definition
Who developed the Looking Glass Self theory?
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John Locke
Definition
Who developed the concept of Tabula Rasa?
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The family, the peer group, school, the mass media
Definition
What are the main agents of socialization in the US?
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Resocializing their members
Definition
What is the main function of total institutions?
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