| A | B |
|---|
| socialization | process by which one learns the characteristics of their group |
| self | unique human capacity of being able to see ourselves |
| looking glass self | Cooley's term used to describe how we develop a sense of self considering how other's see us |
| taking the role of the other | putting oneself into someone else's shoes |
| significant other | an individual who significantly influences the life of another |
| generalized other | the norms, values, belief's of others in general |
| id | Freud's term for our inborn basic drives |
| ego | Freud's term for balancing forces bet. id and demands of society |
| super ego | Freud's term for the conscience |
| gender socialization | the ways in which society sets children onto different courses in life based on gender |
| peer group | indiv. roughly the same age, same interests |
| mass media | form of communication such as radio -tv |
| gender role | behaviors and attitudes considered appropriate because one is male or female |
| social inequality | a social condition in which privileges and obligations are give to some and denied to others |
| agents of socialization | people or groups that affect our self concept |
| manifest function | the intended beneficial consequences of people's behavior |
| latent function | unintended beneficial consequences of people's actions |
| anticipatory socialization | because one anticipates a future role, they begin to learn parts now |
| re-socialization | the process of learning new norms values etc... |
| total institution | a place in which people are cut off from the rest of society |
| degradation ceremony | an attempt to remake the self by stripping away an individual's self identity and stamping a new identity in its place |
