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Sociology
Undergraduate 2
02/15/2012

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agents of socialization
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people or groups that affect our self-concept, attitudes, behaviors, or other orientations towards life. (p.72)
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anticipatory socialization
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because one anticipates a future role, one learns parts of it now. (p75)
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degradation ceremony
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a term coined by Harold Garfinkel to describe an attempt to remake the self by stripping away an individual's self-identity and stamping a new identity in its place (p.68)
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ego
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Freud's term for a balancing force between the id and the demands of society
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freal children
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a human child who has lived isolated from haman cantact from a very young age, and has no (or little) experience of human care, loving or social behavior, and of human language. (p.60)
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gender roles
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behaviors and attitudes considered appropriate for each sex. (p.71)
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generalized other
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the norms, values, attitudes, and expectations of people "in general;" the child's ability to take the role of the generalized other is a significant step in the develoement of a self (p.65)
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I
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Mead's term for the self as subjet, the active, spontaneous, creative part of the self (p.65)
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id
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Freud's term for the individual's inborn basic drives

(p.68)

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life course
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the stage of our life as we go from birth to death

(p.77)

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looking-glass self
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a term coined by Charles Horton Cooley to refer to the process by which our self develops by internalizing other's reachtions to us

(p.64)

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mass media
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forms of communication, such as radio, newspapers, movies, and television that are directed to mass audiences (p.71)
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peer group
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individuals of roughly the same age who are linked by common interests (p.71)
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resocialization
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the process of learning new norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors (p.75)
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self
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the unique to human capacity of being able to see ourselves "from the outside," the picture we gain of how others see us (p.63)
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significant other
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an individual who significantly influences someone else's life (p.64)
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social enviroment
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the entire haman enviroment, including direct contact with others (p.60)
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social inequality
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giving privileges and obligations to one group of people while denying them to another (p.72)
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socialization
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the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group - the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, and actions thought appropriate for them (p.63)
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socialization into gender
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the way in which society sets children onto different courses in life because they are male or female (p.70)
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superego
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Freud's term for the conscience, the internalized norms and values of our social groups (p.68)
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take the role of the other
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put oneself in someone else's shoes; understand how someone else feels and thinks, thus anticipating how that person will act (p.77)
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transitional adulthood
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 a period of extened youth when young gradually ease into adult responsibilities (p.80)
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