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| is the cultural process of learning to participate in group life through cultural transmission | socialization |
| when does the most important learning take place? | early in life |
| What did Harry Harlow's experiment with monkey's show? | Human babies denied close contact usually have difficulty forming emotional ties with others |
| What did the case of Anna and Isabelle show? | personal and social development associated with being human is acquired through intensive and prolonged social contact with others. |
| This theory stresses the ways in which groups work together to create a stable society. | Functionalist Theory |
| This theory views socialization as a way of perpetuating the status quo. | Conflict Perspective |
| Your image of yourself as having an identity separate from other people. | the self-concept |
| This says we use other people as mirrors to reflect back what we imagine they think of us. | looking glass self |
| What are the three steps of the looking glass self? | 1. we imagine how we appear to others 2. we imagine the reaction of others to our appearance 3. we evaluate ourselves according to how we imagine others have judged us. |
| these are the people whose judgments are most important to our self concepts | significant others |
| This allows us to see ourselves through the eyes of someone else. | Role taking |
| What is the 3 stage process of socialization? | a. imitation stage b. play stage c. game stage |
| When does the imitation stage begin? | Between 1 1/2 to 2 years of age |
| When does the play stage begin? | Around the age of 3 or 4. Kids pretend to be mothers, fathers, and teachers. |
| this is an integrated conception of norms, values, and beliefs of one's community or society. | the generalized other |
| This is the part that is unlearned, spontaneous acts | I |
| This is the part that shows predictability and conformity learned through socialization. | Me |
| What types of things does a child learn within a family? | To think and speak, internalize norms, beliefs, and values, form some basic attitudes, develop a capacity for intimate and personal relationships, acquire a self-image. |
| This is the informal and unofficial aspects of culture that children are taught in preparation for life. | The hidden curriculum |
| What is the hidden curriculum of schools? | discipline, order, cooperation, and conformity |
| This is composed of individuals of roughly the same age and interests. | a peer group |
| In peer groups, children gain what experience? | experience with conflict, competition, and cooperation, self direction, independence from adults, developing close ties with friends outside the family |
| These are means of communication designed to reach the general population such as televisions, newspapers and the radio | mass media |
| What are the positive affects of mass media? | the display of role models and exposure to ideas about the values in their society. |
| What are the negative affects of mass media? | exposure to violence |
| places where residents are separated from the rest of society. | total institutions |
| What are the purposes of total institutions? | to desocialize and then resocialze people. |
| The process by which people give up old norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors | desocialization |
| the process in which people adopt new norms, values, attitudes and behaviors | resocialization |
| How is desocialization achieved? | replacing personal possessions with standard issue items, use of serial numbers, loss of privacy. |
| What has to happen before resocializaiton can take place? | self concept must be broken down |
| Where does resocialization usually occur? | in the setting of a total institution |
| This is the process of preparing in advance for new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors | anticipatory socialization |
| A group whose norms and values are used to guide behavior; group with whom you identify. | reference group |
