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| Anticipatory Socialization |
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| Processes of socialization in which a person rehearses for future positions, occupations, and social relationships. |
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| Cognitve theory of development |
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| The theory that children's thought progresses through the four stages of development. |
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| An aspect of the socialization process within some total institutions, in which people are subjected to humiliating rituals. |
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| A view of social interaction in which people are seen as thearetical preformers. |
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| The efforts people make to maintain the proper image and aviod public embarrassment. |
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| Exspectations regarding the proper behavior, attitudes, and activities of males and females. |
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| The attitudes, viewpoints, and exspectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in her or his behavior. |
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| The altering of the presentation of the self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences. |
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| A research orientation in which sociologist and other social scientist look closley at the social factors that influence people throughout their lives from birth to death. |
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| A concept that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions. |
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| A stressful period of self-evaluation that begins at about age 40. |
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| A person's typical patterns of attitudes, needs, characteristics, and behavior. |
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| The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as a part of a transition in one's life. |
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| A ritual marking the symbolic transition from one social position to another. |
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| The process of mentally assuming the perspective of another and resoinding from that imagined viewpoint. |
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| The generation of adults who simultaniously try to meet the competing needs of their parents and their children. |
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| A distinct identity that sets us apart from others. |
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| An individual who is most important in the development of the self, such as a parent, friend, or teacher. |
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| The lifelong process in which people learn the attitudes, values, and behaviors appropriate for members of a particular culture. |
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| An insititution that regulates all aspects of a person's life under a single authority, such as a prison, the military, a mental hospital, or a convent. |
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