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| the entire human environment, including direct contact with others |
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| children assumed to have been raised by animals, in the wilderness, isolated from other humans |
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| the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group--the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, and actions thought appropriate for them |
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| the unique human capacity of being able to see ourselves from the outside; the views we internalize of how others see us |
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| a term coined by Charles Horton Cooley to refer to the process by which our self develops through internalizing others' reactions to us |
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| taking the role of the other |
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| putting oneself in someone else's shoes; understanding how someone else feels and thinks and thus anticipating how that person will act |
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| an individual who significantly influences someone else's life |
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| the norms, values, attitudes, and expectations of people "in general"; the child's ability to take the role of the generalized other is a significant step in the development of a self |
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| Freud's term for our inborn basic drives |
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| Freud's term for a balancing force between the id and the demands of society |
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| Frued's term for the conscience, the internalized norms and values of our social groups |
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| the ways in which society sets children into different courses in life because they are male or female |
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| a group of individuals of roughly the same age who are linked by common interests |
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| forms of communication, such as radio, newspapers, and television that are directed to mass audiences |
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| the behaviors and attitudes considered appropriate because one is a female or a male |
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| a social condition in which privileges and obligations are given to some but denied to others |
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| people or groups that affect our self-concept, attitudes, behaviors, or other orientations toward life |
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| the intended beneficial consequences of people's actions |
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| unintended beneficial consequences of people's actions |
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| anticipatory socialization |
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| because one anticipates a future role, one learns parts of it now |
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| the process of learning new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors |
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| a place in which people are cut off from the rest of society and are almost totally controlled by the officials who run the place |
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| a term coined by Harold Garfinkel to describe an attempt to remake the self by stripping away an individual's current identity and stamping a new one in its place |
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| the stages of our life as we go from birth to death |
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| a term that refers to a period following high school when young adults have not yet taken on the responsibilities ordinarily associated with adulthood; adultolescence |
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