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| The lifelong process thru which people learn attitudes, values, and behaviors appropriate for members of a particular culture. |
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| Distinct identity that sets each of us apart from others. |
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| where children start to imitate people around them. |
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| Role Taking- the process of mentally assuming the perspective of another and responding from that imagined viewpoint. |
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| Generalized Order- refers to the attitudes, viewpoints, and expectations of society as a whole that a child takes into account in his or her behavior. |
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The self is a product of social interactions with others.
Phase 1) We imagine how we present ourselves to others
Phase 2) We imagine how others evaluate us
Phase 3) We define our self as a result of these impressions |
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| Involves an individual altering his or her presentation of the self to create a distinctive appearance and to satisfy particular audiences. (related to Dramaturgical perspective) |
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| Look closely at the social factors, including gender and income, that influence people throughout their lives, from birth to death. |
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| Symbolic representations of significant transitions that serve as a means of dramatization and validating changes in a person's status. |
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| Refers to the process of discarding old behavior patterns and accepting new ones as a part of a life transition. |
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Agents of Socialization
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1)Family- Most important agent, especially for children
2)School- teach us taken for granted knowledge of broader society
3)Peer Groups- more important than family starting around middle school
4)Mass Media and Technology- interacting with technology has greatly affected socialization
5)Workplace- learning to behave appropriately in an occupation.
6)Religion and State- both act to provide markers representing significant life transitions |
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| Refers to the way people respond to each other. |
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| The way in which a society is organized into predictable relationships which are composed of the various positions people occupy. |
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1)Status
2)Ascribed Status
3)Achieved Status
4)Master Status |
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| Refers to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group of society. |
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| Generally assigned at birth without regard to a person's unique talents or characteristics. |
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| Social position that is within our power to change. |
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| Dominates other statuses and thereby determines a person's general position within a society. |
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| A set of expectations for people who occupy a given social position or status. |
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| Occurs when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person |
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| Any number of people with similar norms, values, and expectations, who interact with one another on a regular basis. |
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| Small group characterized by intimate, face to face association and cooperation. |
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| formal impersonal group in which there is little social intimacy or mutual understanding. (Strategic Associations) |
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| A series of social relationships that links people directly to others and thru them indirectly to still more people. |
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| Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on meeting basic social needs. |
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| A component of a formal organization that uses rules and hierarchical ranking to achieve efficiency. |
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| The process by which the principles of efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control shape organization and decision making in the US and around the world. |
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Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.
Defined by people of power. It is universal because all countries have their own standards. It is relative. |
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| Going along with peers or other individuals of our own status who have no special right to direct our behavior. |
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| Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure. |
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| Governmental Social Control |
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| A violation of law for which some governmental authority applies formal penalties. |
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| What are four types of Index Crimes |
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1)Murder
2)Forcible Rape
3)Robbery
4)Aggravated Assault
5)Burglary
6)Larceny Theft
7)Motor Vehicle Theft
8)Arson |
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The willing exchange among adults of widely desired, but illegal, goods and services.
Drugs, Prostitution, Gambling |
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| Illegal acts committed in the course of business activities, often by affluent, "respectable" people. |
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The work of a group that requires relations among criminal enterprises involved in illegal activities.
Smuggling Drugs, Gambling |
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Describes the process through which exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts leads to violation of rules.
People have to teach you to be deviant.
Deviant parents can cause deviant children just by being exposed. |
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