Intro to Sociology Exam #2 – Flashcards
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Sociologists view socialization as a lifelong process that begins when?
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When a child is first born
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The story of the abused child "anna" teaches lessons about the importance of which of the following influences on human development?
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Human interaction
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Ultimately we hold people responsible for their behavior because they can exercise choice over what they do. This speaks to the limit of socialization sociologist refer to as?
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Agency
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Which theorist argued that other people essentially provide us with a "social mirror" and that this interpretations of this mirror affect how we see ourselves?
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Charles Horton Cooley
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In terms of how we feel about ourselves, charles horton cooley would argue that this is false
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We are affected more by how people react to our behavior than by how we interpret their reactions
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Concepts such as I, Me, and the generalized other are what theorists work?
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George Herbert mead
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according to GHM, children first being to learn to recognize an "other" through?
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Imitation
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Sesame street can be a great argument for what?
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the media serves as a powerful socializing agent
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What is a great example of a total institution?
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A convent
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Example of when resocilizaton would occur
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A marketing director is sent to prison for embezzlement.
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A recognizible social position that an individual occupies.
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Status
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Expectations that define appropiate and inappropriate behavior for the occupants of a particular status are called
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Roles
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Janet has multiple things due for school in the upcoming week, on top of it she needs to meet with her counselor. She is expierencing?
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Role strain
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All the statuses an individual occupies at any given time compromise his/her life.
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Status set
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What is an example of an ascribed status?
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American Of japanese descent
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The only tenet that does NOT belong to symbolic interactionism
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Human beings inherit mutual understandings of symbols across cultures, times, and social changes.
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According to goffman the main goal of impression management is to?
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Save Face
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According to goffman, when there is a breach in an established script, people generally do what?
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Work hard to repair the mistake so everyone can move forward
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Two man acknowledge each others prescence in a elevator but "politely ignore" each other for the remainder of time. this is referred to as what?
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Civic inattention
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Why is it more difficult to end a conversation when we are on the phone rather than in person?
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It is impossible for people to see our "closing gestures" many of which are nonverbal when we are on the phone.
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All societies according to one of the social foundations of deviance
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Have some form of deviance
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deviance can vary from one society to the next because...
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they have different set of norms
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according to functionalist theory, responses to deviance might..
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promote social unity
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one of the principles of mahatma gandhi strategy of "non-compliance" suggested
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the "weapon of the week" is available to all members of society
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A crime such as burglary is known as which type of deviance
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Formal deviance
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Durkheims theory and research on deviance fall within which of the main sociological theories?
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functionalist.
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Common faith or set of social norms by which a society and its members abide is defined by durkheim as
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Collective consciousness
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Which of durkhiems social solidarity charactized premodern life?
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Mechanical
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Within organic solidarity, what response to deviance is designed to transform the offender into a productive member of society
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Rehabilitive
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Punishments that attempt to restore the status qou that existed prior to the offense are known as
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Restitutive
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Nieghborhood watch groups are examples of what urban theorist Jane Jacobs called
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the eyes and ears of the streets
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Act of abiding by societies norms
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Normative compliance
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Which of the following is durkhiems primary explanation for why people commit suicide
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They lack social integration.
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according to merton, which of the following describes a person who accepts both the goals defined by society and the means to achieve them
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Conformist
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A person who desires a big mansion and perfect american dream lifestyle, but sells illegal drugs to achieve this is called
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Innovator
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Which of the following is a symbolic interactionilst theory of deviance
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Labeling theory
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Jennifer goes into a store and shoplifts a bracelet successfully. Labeling theorists would call this
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Primary deviance
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Negative social label that affects people in life
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Stigma
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"broken windows" theory of deviance that suggest people use________to determine the informal social norms in specific environments
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Social context and social cues
