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Chapter 3
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
02/09/2011

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socialization
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the lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture
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personality
Definition
a person's fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling
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id
Definition
Freud's term for the human being's basic drives
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ego
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Freud's term for a person's conscious efforts to balance innate pleasure-seeking drives with the demands of society
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superego
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Freud's term for the cultural values and norms internalized by an individual
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sensorimotor stage
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Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals experience the world only through their senses
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preoperational stage
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Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals first use language and other symbols
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concrete operational stage
Definition
Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals first see causal connections in their surroundings
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formal operational stage
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Piaget's term for the level of human development at which individuals think abstractly and critically
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self
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George Herbert Mead's term for the part of an individual's personality composed of self-awareness and self-image
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looking-glass self
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Charles Horton Cooley's term for a self-image based on how we think others see us
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significant others
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people, such as parents, who have special importance for socialization
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generalized other
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Mead's term for widespread cultural norms and values we use as a reference in evaluating ourselves
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