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| Multiple forces interact to create our ___________ – the essential aspect of who we are, consisting of our sense of self, gender, race, ethnicity, and religion. |
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| : Process through which one learns how to act according to the rules and expectations of a particular culture. |
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| Anticipatory Socialization |
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| : Process through which people acquire the values and orientations found in statuses they will likely enter in the future. |
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| : Process of learning new values, norms and expectations when an adult leaves an old role and enters a new one |
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| refers to the unique set of traits, behaviors and attitudes that distinguishes one person from the next. |
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| To have a self is to have the ability to plan, observe, guide, and respond to one’s own behavior |
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| The ability to see oneself from the perspective of others and to use that perspective in formulating one’s own behavior is called |
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| Perspective of the larger society and its constituent values and attitudes. |
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| The ____ ______ occurs when children are able to take a role, but only from the perspective of one person at a time. |
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The ____ _____ is the stage in development of self when the child can take the role of the “generalized other.”
Can conform her or his behavior to broad societal expectations. |
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Family- primary source of personal socialization
Education - impersonal socialization, transmission of knowledge, also teaches students to be “passive, non-problematic conformists”
Media - transmits messages about the type of people we “should” be; subtle and not so subtle messages
Social Class- similar experiences of power, privilege, prestige, wealth etc. lead to similar ways of perceiving life and social structure
Peers- peers can strongly influence beliefs and behaviors
Race & Ethnicity- important component of identity for most people |
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| Nature vs. Nurture debate |
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| biological vs. social/environmental) |
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| Stages of Acquisition of Identity |
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1. Recognition of oneself as distinct from others.
2. Language acquisition
3. Development of looking-glass self -interpret actions of others toward us as mirrors in which we see ourselves. |
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Our perception of how we appear to another person
Our estimate of the judgment the other person makes about us
Some emotional feeling about this judgment (such as pride or shame) |
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