Sociology Ch 3 – Flashcards
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How much human action is determined by nature (genetics) or nurture (how you were raised)-> sociologists focus on Nurture
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Nature Vs. Nurture
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Nurture and the context in which we have contact with others
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Social Environment
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Wild, with no domestication, the most damaging of all, misses language so does not have the 'human' aspect to being human
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Feral Children
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the way/process that we learn the ways of society
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Socialization
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When children are raised without human interaction, you have no language or culture to make you human
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Isolated Children
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raised in institutional environment with little to no motherly/caring interactions-> Lower IQ
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Institutionalized Children
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the image of who you are, never finished (imagine, interpret, develop)
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Self
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Idea of Mead, putting yourself in someone else's shoes when you interact with them
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Taking the role of the other
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individuals that significantly influence our lives, have a direct influence
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Significant others
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perception of how people think of us
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Generalized other
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Piaget, birth-2, know only direct contact-> you do what you do
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Sensorimotor stage
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piaget, 2-7, stage where you are learning symbols but do not understand them
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Preoperational stage
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Piaget, 7-12, take role of the other but still not able to understand
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Concrete Operational stage
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Piaget, 12<, Abstract thinking, when you understand symbols and their meanings
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Formal Operational stage
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Freud, needs, what drives you for satisfaction
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Id
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Freud, Balance between Id and Superego
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Ego
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Freud, what society expects of us
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Superego
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individual of roughly the same age linked by common interests
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Peer group
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Forms of communication for large audiences
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Mass Media
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behaviors/attitudes considered appropriate for a sex
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Gender Roles
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giving privileges and obligations to one group of people while denying them to another, includes access and outcomes
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Social Inequality
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Individuals/groups that influence our orientations in life (self concepts, emotions, attitudes, behaviors)
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Agents of Socialization
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learning to play a role before entering it
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Anticipatory Socialization
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you get what you deserve
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Meritocracy
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When we learn something that is contrary to our previous experiences, learning new norms, etc
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Resocialization
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Place in which people are cut off from the rest of society, where the people come under almost total control of those in charge
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Total Institution
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attempting to remake one's self by leaving old identity and taking on a new one
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Degradation ceremony
