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| personality | the sum of total behaviors attitudes, beliefs,and values that are characteristic of an individual. |
| instinct | an unchanging, biologically inherited behavior pattern. |
| sociobiology | the systematic study of biological basis of all social behavior. |
| aptitude | a capacity to learn a particular skill or acquirea particular body of knowledge. |
| socialization | interactive process through which individals learn basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of the society. |
| self | our conscious awareness af possessing a distinct idenity that sepeartes us from other members of the society. |
| looking-glass self | refers to the interactive process by which we deveolp an image of ourselves based on how we imagine we appear to others. |
| role-taking | forms the basis of the socialization process by allowing us to anticipate what others expect of us. |
| significant others | people close to you. |
| generalized other | mead called the internalize the attitudes, expectations amd veiwpoints of society. |
| total institution | a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society for a set period of time and are subject to control of officals of very ranks. |
| resocialization | involves a break with past experiances and the learing of new values and norms. |
| agents of socialization | the specific individals, groups and instituions that provide the situations in which socalization can occur. |
| peer group | primary group composed group composed of individuals of roughly people the same age. |
| mass media | newspapers, magazines,books, televisions, radio, films,and other forms of media that reaches large groups of people. |
