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puzzle 4 - socialization
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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
07/06/2011

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concrete
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operationsal stage which is Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals first perceive casual communications in their surroundings
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gerontology
Definition
study of the process of aging and problems of aged people
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self
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Mead's term for the part of an individual's personality composed of self-awareness and self-image
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ego
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Freud's designation for a person's conscious efforts to balance innate pleasure-seeking drives with the demands of society
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formal
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operational stage which is Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals think abstractly and critically
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socialization
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lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn culture
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total institution
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a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society and manipulated by an administrative staff
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operational
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Piaget's description of various stages through which individuals proceed in their cognitive development
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id
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Freud's designation for the human being's basic drives
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gerontocracy
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a form of social organization in which the elderly have the most wealth, power, and prestige
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mass media
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impersonal communications aimed at a vast audience
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peer
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a social group whose memebers have interests, social position, and age in common
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resocialization
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radically changing an inmate's personality through carefully controlling his/her environment
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personality
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a person's fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling
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cohort
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a category of people who share some traits such as age or employment
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anticipatory socialization
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learning that helps a person achieve a desired position
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looking-glass self
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Cooley's term for self-image based on how we think others see us
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superego
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Freud's designation for the operation of culture within the individual in form of internalized values and norms
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ageism
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prejudice and discrimination against the elderly
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social group
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two or more people who identify and interact with another
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