Sociology Review – Flashcards
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Peers
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Agent of socialization composed of people of roughly equal age and social characteristics
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Peers
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Agent of socialization that usually becomes important in adolescence and early childhood
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Role taking
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Allows us to anticipate what other expect of us and to see ourselves through the eyes of others
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Instinct
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An unchanging, biologically inherited behavior pattern
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Nature v.s. Nurture
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Debate concerning the importance of heredity versus the environment in the development of personality
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Family
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First agent of socialization that people usually encounter
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Birth order
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Influence on an individual's personality determined by the presence and number of brothers and sisters
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Looking glass
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Interactive proses by which we develop an image of ourselves based on how we imagine we appear to others
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Socialization
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Interactive proses through which people learn basic skills, values, beliefs, and behavior patterns of society
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Resocialization
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Involves a break with past experiences and the learning of new values and norms
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Human interaction
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Anna Isabelle and Genie
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Family
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Most important agent of socialization in almost every society
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Self
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Our conscious awareness of possessing a distinct identity that separates us from other members of society
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Cultural environment
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Ik Uganda
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Total institution
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Setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society
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Me
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Part of identity that is aware of the expectations and attitudes of society
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Agents of socialization
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The specific individuals groups institutions that provide the situations in which socialization can occur
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Personality
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Sum of total behaviors attitudes beliefs and values characteristic of an individual
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School
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Type of socialization that trains people for life in the larger world
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Significant others
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This term that refers to those people that are very important and influential in a persons life
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Media
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Types of agent of socialization that includes television, newspapers, magazines, and films
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I
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Unsocialized, spontaneous, self-interested components of our personalities
