| A | B |
| socialization | lifelong social experience by which individuals develop their human potential and learn culture |
| personality | person's fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling |
| id | Freud's term for human being's basic drives |
| ego | Freud's term for person's conscious efforts to balance innate pleasure-seeking drives w/demands of society |
| superego | Freud's term for operation of culture within individual in the form of internalized values and norms |
| sensorimotor stage | Piaget's term for level of human development at which individuals experience world only thru their senses |
| preoperational stage | Piaget's term for level of human development at which individuals first use language and symbols |
| concrete operational stage | Piaget's term for level of human development at which individuals first perceive casual connections in their surroundings |
| formal operational stage | Piaget's term for level of human development at which individuals think abstractly and critically |
| self | Mead's term for that part of individual's personality composed of self-awareness and self-image |
| looking-glass self | Cooley's term referring to self-image based on how we think others see us |
| peer group | social group whose members have interests, social position, and age in common |
| anticipatory socialization | learning that helps a person achieve a desired position |
| mass media | impersonal communications aimed at a vast audience |
| gerontology | study of aging and the elderly |
| gerontacracy | form of social organization in which elderly have most wealth, power, and prestige |
| ageism | prejudice and discrimination against elderly |
| cohort | category of people w/common characteristic, usually their age |
| total institution | setting in which people are isolated from rest of society and manipulated by administrative staff |
| resocialization | radically changing an inmate's personality through carefully controlling the enviroment |