| A | B |
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| I | unsocialized, spontaneous, self-interested component of the personality and self-identity |
| Me | part of the identity that is aware of the expectations and attitudes of society; the socialized self |
| Significant others | specific people, such as parents, brothers, sisters, and friends, who have a direct influence on our socialization |
| role-taking | According to Mead this is taking or pretending to take the role of others |
| looking-glass self | According to Cooley this is an interactive process by which we develop an image of ourselves based on how we imagine we appear to others |
| socialization | interactive process through which individuals learn the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of society |
| instinct | unchanging, biologically inherited behavior pattern |
| heredity | transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to children |
| personality | sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are characteristic of an individual |
| sociobiology | the systematic study of the bilogical basis of all social behavior |
| aptitude | a capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge |
| self | our conscious awareness of possessing a distinct identity that separates us from other memebers of society |
| generalized other | the internalized attitudes, expectations, and viewpoints of society |
| agents of socialization | specific individuals, groups, and institutions that probide the situations in which socialization can occur |
| peer group | a primary group composed of individuals of roughly equal age and social characteristics |
| mass media | newspapers, magazines, books, television, radio, films, and other forms, of communication that reach large audiences withno personal contact between the individuals sending the information and those recieving in |
| total insitution | a setting in which people are isolated form the rest of society for a set period of time and are subject to the control of officials of varied ranks |
| resocialization | a break with past experiences and the learning of new values and norms |
| Tabula Rasa | John Locke says that each newly born child is a clean slate |
