Sociology Chapters 5 & 6 – Flashcards
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sum total of behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and values that are characteristic of an individual.
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Personality
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Transmission of genetic characteristics from parents to children.
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Heredity
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unchanging, biologically inherited behavior pattern
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Instinct
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interactive process through which individuals learn basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of society.
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Socialization
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interactive process by which we develop an imagine of ourselves based on how we imagine we appear to others.
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Looking-Glass Self
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taking or pretending to take the role of others.
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Role-Taking
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specific people, such as parents, brothers, sisters, other relatives, and friends, who have a direct influence on our socialization
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Significant Others
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unsocialized, spontaneous, self-interested component of the personality and self-identity
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I
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Specific individuals, groups, and institutions that provide the situations in which socialization can occur
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Agents of Socialization
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Period between the normal onset of puberty and the beginning of adulthood
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Adolescence
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physical maturing that makes an individual capable of sexual reproduction
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Puberty
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Learning of the rights, obligations, and expectations of a role in preparation for assuming that role at a future date.
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Anticipatory Socialization
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a social behavior that allows individuals to chose their own marriage partners.
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Dating
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a social interaction similar to dating but with the sole purpose of eventual marriage.
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Courtship
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tendency for individual to marry people who have social characteristics similar to their own.
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Homogamy
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Any substance that changes mood, behavior, consciousness.
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Drug
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System of statuses, roles, values, and norms that is originated to satisfy one or more of the basic needs of society
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Social Interigation
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"Blank Slate" Everyone is born without personality.
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Tabula Rasa
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capacity to learn a particular skill or acquire a particular body of knowledge.
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Aptitude
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wild or untamed children
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Feral Children
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setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society for a set period of time and subjected to the control of officials and varied ranks.
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Total Institutions
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systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior.
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Sociobiology
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A group of the same or similar elements gathered or occurring closely together- typically has a leader and followers
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Cluster Effect
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Not only see ourselves but begin to role take and become more like significant others.
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George Herbert Mead
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Born with a clean slate- we are born without personalities.
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John Locke
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Created the looking glass self- develop a sense of self
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Charles Horton Cooley
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The more stress you have the more likely- Those who strive to achieve more consider suicide more
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Teen Suicide Factors
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the order in which you are born can effect your personality
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Birth Order
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The Emperors New Clothes- One theme- No one is better than you- Emperor had everything but it didn't mean he was better than everyone else.
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Fairy Tales
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Riptide- Vance Joy- Theme-All his friends are becoming envious- Because this woman is so beautiful that magicians dream of having her as an assistant. Evidence- Oh all my friends are turning green/ you're the magician's assistant in their dreams
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Song Theme
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Nature- everything is instinct- Nurture- personality is a result of his/her social environment and learning.
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Compare/Contrast Nature vs. Nurture
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Suicide- Intentionally killing yourself- Girls are more likely to think suicidal, boys are more likely to commit suicide. 1 in 6 students have seriously thought about suicide. There are several signs and the first one is being depressed.
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Panel Discussions
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internalized attitudes, expectations, and viewpoints of society that we use to guide our behavior and reinforce our sense of self.
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Generalized Other
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break with past experiences and the learning of new values and norms.
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Resocialization
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primary group composed of individuals of roughly equal age and social characteristics.
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Peer Group
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Conscious awareness of possessing a distinct identity that separates u from other members of society
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Self
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Sexual Transmitted disease
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STD
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part of the identity that is aware of the expectations and attitudes of society; the socialized self.
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