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| Adolescence | The period between the normal onset of puberty and the beginning of adulthood. |
| Aptitude | Capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge. |
| Dating | A social behavior that allows individuals to choose their own marriage partners. |
| Generalized Other | Internalized attitudes, expectations and viewpoints of society that we use to guide our behavior and reinforce our sense of self. |
| Heredity | Transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to children. |
| I | The unsocialized, spontaneous, self-interested component of teh personality and self-identity. |
| Instinct | Unchanging, biologically inherited behavior. |
| Looking-glass Self | Interactive process by which we develop an image of ourselves based on how we imagine we appear to others. |
| Mass Media | Newspapers, magazines, books, tv, radio, films, and other forms of communication that reach large audiences. |
| Me | Part of the identity that is aware of the expectations and attitudes of society. |
| Peer Group | Primary group composed of individuals of roughtly equal age and social characteristics. |
| Personality | The sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are charactistic of an individual. |
| Puberty | Physical maturing that makes an individual capable of sexual reproduction. |
| Resocialization | Break with past experiences and the learning of new values and norms. |
| Role-taking | Taking or pretending to take the role of others. |
| Self | Conscious awareness of possessing a distinct identity that separates us from other members of society. |
| Significant Others | Specific people, such as parents, brothers, sisters, other relatives, and friends, who have a direct influence on our socialization. |
| Social Integration | Degree of attachments people have to social groups or to society. |
| Socialization | Interactive process through which individuals learn the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of society. |
| Total Institution | Setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society for a set period of time and subjected to the control of officials of varied ranks. |
