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| The process by which people learn the characteristics of their group-the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, norms and actions thought appropriate for them |
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| According to Freud, consists of three elements the id (our inborn basic drives), the ego (balancing force between the id and demands for society), and the superego (the conscience: the internalized norms and values of our social groups). |
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| A framework of thought that views human behavior as the result of natural selection and considers biological factors to be the fundamental cause of human behavior. |
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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. Behavior changes based on your perception of how other people perceive you. |
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| Things to which people attach meanings to and then use them to communicate with other. |
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| Role: behaviors, obligations, and privileges attached to a status. We take on many roles: daughter, mother, sister, aunt, wife, etc. Have to balance these roles. |
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| The norms, values, attitudes and expectations of people "in general;" the child's ability to take the role of generalized other is a significant step in the development of a self. |
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| An Individual who significantly influences someone else's life. |
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| Approach pioneered by Erving Goffman in which social life is analyzed in terms of drama or the stage. Everything we say and do is highly scripted. Ex: go back and forth on phone calls, wait your turn, like a script. |
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| Weddings, graduation, initiation, rite of passage onto to the next level; bumps you up a level. |
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| Anticipatory Socialization |
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| The process of learning in advance a role or status one anticipates having. Ex: teaches men and women how they should interact w/each other in public. Rehearsing for social position. |
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| The process of learning new norms, values, attitudes and behaviors. Taught how to act in all other institutions. Voluntary: frats & sororities and involuntary: prison |
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| A place that is almost totally uncontrolled by those who run it in which people are cut off from the rest of society and society is mostly cut off from them. Where re-socialization occurs and the individual is considered secondary to the institution as a whole. Ex: prisons or military. |
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| Harold Garfinkel- a ritual whose goal is to remake someone's self by stripping away that individual's self-identity and stamping a new one in it's place. Ex: Military head shave and uniform. Jail-Delouse/body cavity search. |
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| The behaviors and attitudes expected of people because they are male or female |
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| The most important agent of socialization is |
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| Examples of Total Institutions |
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| Prison, Monastery, Military Boot Camp |
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| Sorority or Fraternity hazing are examples of: |
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| Those people who are most close to you are: |
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| The theoretical perspective most closely associated with the generalized other is: |
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